"I suppose that comes from living on an unreal world so long."
They are living in an unreal world, making big money playing a game.
"It's an unreal world when you read through this paper," he said.
Nevertheless, Jacobson seems to be living in an unreal political world.
Yet for the book to work as a satire, it must be set in an unreal world.
She must not be allowed to confuse the real with the unreal world.
In an unreal world, who could say what was real?
"For the rest of the unreal world, the acid test is to come," he said.
The world being both unreal and real is explained by the following.
It was as if this were the unreal world and that other cold past the place where she still belonged.