Just A Dream?

"Have you ever thought about this, that right now this instant every one of them is somewhere being real? The Pope and the President and also certain surviving kings, the people whose secrets we know and the ones of whom we know no more than the newspaper confides, all the people you have met and all the people you will meet, and all you have never met and will never meet, all of them they are somewhere now right this instant being real. Even when you are not talking about them, not thinking about them perhaps not even remembering them in spite of these insults they are somewhere being real.... At the very same instant they are being real right now. It is too much to comprehend that, still they dare it, but it is too much."
     —Gaddis, The Recognitions

Packing up, heading out. Goodbye Europe, hello Life.