Contemplation permits
reflection and the nurture of ideas and today I have been contemplating magic
realism and in particular, this:
'...the
supernatural is not a simple or obvious matter, but it is an ordinary matter,
an everyday occurrence - admitted, accepted, and integrated into the
rationality and materiality of literary realism. Magic is no longer quixotic
madness, but normative and normalizing.' Lois Parkinson Zamora
Because it has me thinking
about what I am writing and the idea that magic is normative and normalizing at
the same time, which is something I am trying to capture. The fact that the
magic just is. And yet, in thinking about it, its nothing short of those
internal thoughts we all have, the inner secrets, our magic inner selves where
fantasies and secret matters are re-enacted and real. It takes some explaining
but I am working it through, though to what end only time will tell. This boy
knows about it:
