> From: Curtis Burisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reality is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.
>     -- Douglas Adams 

> > Jon Louis Mann wrote:
> >> who was it that postulated that reality is an
> illusion?

> Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> > Someone before Descartes.

> Are we talking Plato's cave here, or something later?
>       Julia

i don't recall the original reference, but there are many.  one that stands out 
is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(Hinduism)
hermann hesse wrote a great short story, "maya"...




      
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