162 When reality interferes with my life: In the daily transactions between my two economies — the mundane business of life and that of my pleasant dreams — I must have a competent manager in both companies, the object of each is to balance the books at the end of the day. I also must not permit the one to grasp for “more” than is necessary. I do not want the one to acquire too much debt with the other ... nor to lend too much. The one needs the other’s future business. A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism
163 Without dreams life would become something that had to be endured ... a succession of petty, meaningless tasks. On the other hand, without an eye for the superficial, I could never steer an event, never become anything more than an accident ... never worthy of anything, and life would become just an endurance of disappointments. A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism