“In short, there are two realisms: the first deciphers the “real” (what is demonstrated but not seen); the second speaks “reality” (what is seen but not demonstrated): fiction, which can mix these two realisms, adds to the intelligible of the “real” the hallucinatory tail of “reality”…the onset of historical intelligibility and the persistence of the thing in being there.”

-Roland Barthes, The Pleasures of the Text-