The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
- Wallace Stevens, "Adagia"
Oh, dog. Why get your underwear in knots? Why do we have to "believe" in anything. Why doesn't anyone want to wake up? "Exquisite" my ass!
Joanna