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There is no clear border between remembering and imagining.

But then, that woman isn’t interested in the problem of consciousness and reality. She doesn’t give a jot about philosophy. These journalist actually believe they can get the real story, the objective truth, or tell both sides, as if the world was always split in two. At the same time ‘reality’ in America has become synonymous with the rank and sordid. We’ve fetishized the true story, the tell-all confession, reality TV, real people in their real lives, celebrity marriages, divorces addictions, humiliations as entertainment-our version of the public hanging. The crowd gathers to gape.

By becoming a historian of his own immigrant past, he had found a way to return home again and again.