a different world, or maybe not.

[fivethreerin]

"In reading a novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally when we're done with it, we may find- if it's a good novel- that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having met a new face, crossed a street we never crossed before. But it's very hard to say just what we have learned, how we were changed."

-Ursula K Le Guin's notes from The Left Hand of Darkness