"I... I don't know. Teacher, you told me so many times that the world isn't made of things — it's made of stor

"I... I don't know. Teacher, you told me so many times that the world isn't made of things — it's made of stories. And we ourselves are made of the stories we tell and believe. But shouldn't those stories also be true? You said that people are essentially animals who love stories — did you really mean that people are just lying beasts?"