“Take note of what happens in a lie-world like this; by the time you’re in this deep, and you’ve invented and imaginary job, with an imaginary start time, and imaginary pay, and put your loved-ones through the sandwich routine, and ‘Oh my God should I call Hildegard Lasseen,’ and all – it doesn’t matter anymore whether you admit the lie, or just get fucken busted doing it. People go, ‘But he was so credible.’ They start to realize you introduced them to a whole parallel world, full of imaginary shit. It’s a pisser, I know it, I don’t blame them at all. But it’s like suddenly you qualify for membership in the fucken Pathology Zone, even though those same people immediately turn around and go, ‘Can’t make it, Gloria – my folks just flew in from Denver.’”
– ‘Vernon God Little’ by DBC Pierre
