Apropos of the Francis Ford Coppola quote in my August 15th post, Newfoundland author Michael Crummey says of his new novel, Galore: "The question of truth doesn't interest me...but the question of what's real does."

Here's another quote, this one from U.S. sociologist W.I. Thomas in 1928: "If men define their situations a real, they are real in their consequences."