Atonement employed themes similar to Austen's, including the notion of a young writer living in "an isolated English country house" who "mixes up desires and fantasies, truths and fiction".
Reality shows, of course, traffic in fantasy, not truth, and are far less realistic.
For a while, Tugg Speedman keeps believing that he is still in character, performing for hidden cameras, but that conceit, I noticed, was quietly dropped, as if the film had better things to do than fool around on the fault lines between fantasy and truth.
"Am I really lying when I pass off my fantasies as truth?
B, thank you for letting down your third wall, for sharing your inspiration, your fantasies, your truth with us.
The seventh volume of the "Sword of Truth" fantasy series.
"Nobody likes me... " What was fantasy; what was truth?
The tension between fantasy and historical truth is a matter of dogma among Druids.
In the sixth volume of the "Sword of Truth" fantasy series, Richard is captured on returning home.
