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“The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was a folly that would call down tigers or hiccups to cure us of our recklessness. The effort was doomed, for it too much pointed past the intimate boundaries of our necessary fictions.”

Reality Fiction Dreams Lies Ersatz Chronic City Jonathan Lethem

Book:Chronic City

Source: Chronic City

“Here was happiness; not my drum, to be sure, just an ersatz, but there is also a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perhaps all happiness is an ersatz for happiness.”

Happiness Ersatz

Book:The Tin Drum

Source: The Tin Drum

“Plastics. Polyesters. Resins. Ersatz—industrial uses. Do you see? No consumers’ commodities.”

Plastics Ersatz

Book:The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle