joke

Today I found the following in my phone notes with the title "joke". I think I wrote it on a plane while either watching Ratatouille or reading Pale Fire.

 "Disclosed was [...] the basic fact that reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates it's own special reality perceived by the communal eye."

- Pale Fire (1962)

 

"You could fill a book-- a lot of books-- with things dad doesn't know. And they have. Which is why I read."

- Ratatouille (2007)

I dont get the joke.

-MPB