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1 " The term magical realism was invented by Western logic as a twentieth-century oxymoron to denote what clearly is visible but unexplainable. The term fantastic serves a similar function. Using such terms mitigates the magical by adding the realistic. For older belief structures which required no such mitigation, in which the efficacy of practices was not measured by the iron rules and categories of science but by apparent results no such terms were required. (Shirfa M. Goldman wrote an essay contained within Santa Barraza: Artist of the Southwest "
― Shirfa M. Goldman
