– Did you manage to escape?
– Escape?
– The annual festivities. April Fools' Day. The great celebration of – jollity. And japes.
– Was it April Fools' Day?
– Yesterday.
– Of course. I didn't really notice.
– No amusing incidents, then?
– Nothing out of the ordinary. Though I suppose it's difficult to tell sometimes.
– How do you mean?
– It's not always obvious, is it, whether something is real, or just an elaborate hoax. If it's a convincing hoax, I mean. In fact, you could say that about life in general.
– That it's just a hoax? Our entire life is a hoax? All we know of the world, all human experience through the ages, is just an empty delusion? A cruel deception by some heartless supernatural prankster?
– Yes. Maybe.
– That would be disturbing.
– Yes. If you take it to its logical conclusion. But then again –
– Yes?
– I could be wrong.
– Should I be worried?
– Probably.
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