Some of the spreading slick of books on the Deepwater blowout and its subsequent oil spill dutifully attempt to cash in on this literary reference invoking Macondo's ageless origins, its propensity for the innominate and the extremes of irreality and, more than once, its hurricane-mediated erasure from all subsequent memory.
Why paint reality when irreality presents so many richer possibilities?
When I realized my error, a strange sensation of irreality would come over me.
The tents are a strange bubble of irreality, an ecosystem unto itself, like Biosphere 2 but with more intimidating footwear.
Thus we're on our own when we ponder sentences like "This forces me to reconsider the 'discarding and annexing' process by the brain in favor of a proliferation theory," or "So irreality and perturbation are the two perplexities which confront us," or "I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.
That these events should be recalled long after the fact by that same woman, now living in determined solitude on a British offshore island, grants both past and present settings a sense of irreality.
But his idea for a novel of high finance is quickly scuppered by the irreality and tedium of its subject matter: "In the past a novel didn't always need a story," he explains to Claude.
It is Kaufman-reality, unreality, irreality, and the film won't have the same impact if you are not prepared to grant it some kind of "reality" status.
All film fiction is unrealistic, but the power of film creates its own reality – if the irreality is large enough, it becomes more believable than actual reality (as with, for instance, the inventions in Sorkin's Social Network).
Didn't Baldwin address the slippery notion of truth when he wrote, near the close of "Nothing Personal," "We have, it seems to me, a very curious sense of reality — or, rather, perhaps, I should say, a striking addiction to irreality. . . .
"An air of irreality hung about the place," Douglas writes of Nepenthe, in the book's opening pages, as a ferry from Naples approaches it.
