Suspending Belief

"The problem............is that once a novelist invites reality into his story, he can't tell it when to leave. On every page, he has to tacitly ask the reader to suspend not disbelief but belief, belief in what we know about the world" (Malcolm Jones "Charlie's Company," a review of Glen David Gold's Sunnyside, Newsweek, 18 May 2009)

This is one of the best observations I have found recently, for it seems that it sums up how we are trained to live life these days--suspending belief in what we know to be the truth and reality of Nature's law.

We use to believe, which made suspending it difficult. Now, we willingly choose to suspend belief, for the world of disbelief. And somehow, it is easier to believe in disbelief than in belief. The Bard thinks that he must stop here, for this is quite the circular and difficult subject for him.