The title of this blog, 'Pseudo
Reality Prevails' is not an original invention. It comes from Robert
Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities, first
published in 1930. I picked up a paperback second hand copy from
Onehunga's 'Hard to Find' bookshop a few years ago without knowing
anything about it. The title itself appealed to me, and also the
blurb on the back cover:
The scene is Vienna on the brink of
the first world war, an epoch grinding to its tragic end.
