ELECTING TO SEE THE WORLD OTHER THAN THE WAY IT REALLY IS

Nicole Krauss, Forest Dark: A Novel (New York: Harper, 2017) ("To deny, in other words, an aspect of their reality, because it conflicts with what they believe about who they are . . . And yet isn't it true of all of us? That there are things we feel to be at the heart of our nature that are not borne out by the evidence around us, and so to protect our delicate sense of integrity, we elect, however unconsciously, to see the world other than the way it really is? And sometime it lead to transcendence, and sometimes it leads to the unconscionable." Id. at 92.).