After screaming through the Samsung 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway and the Subway Fresh Fit 500 at the Phoenix International Raceway, #9 Lance Mantis remains #1 in the fantasy NASCAR league, with The Duke of Padukah fast approaching!!
Readers often ask me why I care so much about my fantasy dominance when I so thoroughly dominate "real" racing. I ask them to consider reality as fantasy and fantasy as reality.
Fantasy as reality: A leprechaun, the Blessed Virgin Mary, or the "extraterrestrial" that hovers over my race car...angels, demons...dragons...as real as anything else, but undetected?
Reality as fantasy: Think of what you consider "real"...how confident do you feel in it's realness? Consider everything you sense and perceive as the result or "output" of the processing that occurs in your brain, nervous system, etc...one continuous and highly sophisticated projection? Like life as a lifelong movie?
I recommend easing off of the fantasy/reality dichotomy and consider them as one sometimes...don't mentally separate them so rigidly as you would, say, mentally separate me from the rest of the field in any race no matter when or where, like this weekend's Aaron's 499 at the Talladega Superspeedway!
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