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Strikes me there are two ways out of this here valley.

That-a-way is a mighty steep path, full of pits and crumbles. It'll cost you a lot to get out, and when you get there you find reality ain't all it is cracked up to be, no sir. It looks, well, kind of ordinary. Just the kind of reality you see every day and you will wonder what the point of it is.

But this-a-way there is a gentle slope out, and magic beyond. Nope, there's no reality, but there are blue cartoon hedgehogs, Italian plumbers, little guys in green hats, fairies, dragons and the whole world of the imagination.

I've seen many try the steep slope. They all want to be the first up there. But somehow they all come back with me for a bottle of milk, a bit of coin-collecting and then we go off huntin' giant mad spiky turtles.

Reality - who needs it?