因为我们密切关注他们，并且世界上的每个人似乎都知道他们是谁，所以他们对我们来说比我们自己更真实。
Because we watch them so closely and because everybody in the world seems to know who they are, they appear more real to us than we do ourselves.
它们似乎没有民间故事那么真实，包含一些不太可能发生的事，比如一只青蛙变成了王子。
They seem to be less realistic than folktales, like they have something improbable happening—a frog turning into a prince, say.
正如一位作家所观察到的：“尽管现在很明显，手工艺品和编年史一样容易被篡改，但公众对其真实性的信心依然存在：一件有形的遗物本身似乎就是真实的。”
As one writer observes: "Although it is now evident that artefacts are as easily altered as chronicles, public faith in their veracity endures: a tangible relic seems ipso facto real."
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