At first glance, SecondLife appears to be a videogame, but it is more than that: it is a virtual world. Over a million people are registered inhabitants of this place, where they can meet, chat, walk together... In The Cave and The Double, José Saramago had written about the importance of reality and human beings' eagerness to find places to which they can escape. Here, the Portuguese intellectual reflects on SecondLife on radiocable.com