And to understand the other's reality requires a very complex exercise; hence the impulse to feel certainly sympathetic to the King of Siam's inability to accept the existence of sea ice that describes a Dutch ambassador. Juan Pimentel uses this episode to explain the difficult line between reality and truth, between what is plausible and credible and dependence affecting these concepts in their own cultural tradition and training. It seems counterintuitive, but the contents of the chronicles of trips always were and have been difficult to accept, because they speak of the strange and the unknown and because, ultimately, the world is reduced to the world itself and of others, by unknown, simply does not exist. Exemplifies the pun running down the Lisbon XVI named Fernão Mendes Pinto commuter once already disclosed their fabulous trip East: Fernão, minds? Muito (Fernão, Do you lie? Much)