Should we fabulate some tale of ocean monsters to intrigue our unwanted guests and possibly stave off fate for a while?

And while we fret and writhe in bandaged uncertainty - are we a voluntary patient?- we fabulate.

We all know objective truth is not obtainable, that when some event occurs we shall have a multiplicity of subjective truths which we assess and then fabulate into history, into some God-eyed version of what 'really' happened.

Writing with impassioned control and out of a maniacal serenity, the author creates language at once classical and familiar, opalescent and pure, that is able to praise and curse, laugh and cry, fabulate and sing and soar.

"The Garcimarquesian voice," Pynchon wrote, has "been brought to a level where it can at once be classical and familiar, opalescent and pure, able to praise and curse, laugh and cry, fabulate and sing and when called upon, take off and soar."