Victor Pelevin. Secret views of mount Fuji (№ 404844)

The point is that we do not live in the “world”, not in “space” and not in “time”, not among sensations and experiences - we live in a narrative, in a fairy tale. Moreover, we do not just live in it, we ourselves are also a narrative. And even highly spiritual citizens who think they are living in the "here and now" are actually living in the narrative "here and now." Part of the narrative tells about "us", part about "the world", they are intertwined and create a closed shell, from which a normal person does not stick his nose out until his death. Not out of inertia or cowardice, but because he himself is just a drawing on this shell.