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Am myself reading The Echo Maker by Richard Powers, which perhaps ups the ante a bit. The novel revolves around a man who has had an auto accident and comes out of a coma certain that his sister, who has been caring for him, is an imposter (an instance of "Capgras syndrome;" see one of the background readings for this coming week). That in turn begins to raise serious questions both for the sister and for a visiting neurologist (an Oliver Sacks character) about whether each of them actually is or is not who they thought they were. Who's "out of touch with reality"?

And those in turn bring to mind a couple of interesting movies I've seen recently. At the end of the Coen Brothers latest, Burn After Reading, one character asks "What have we learned?" to which the reply is "Not to do that again." The scene ends with the follow up question "What did we do?" and the response "I don't know." Couple that perhaps with the tag line from Charlie Wilson's War, "we'll see," and you get .... reality?