Stay with it. I can’t say more or I’d spoil it. If you don’t like magic realism (Gabriel Garcia Marques, Salman Rushdie eat al) then, ok, maybe it’s not for you.

I stand corrected and better informed.

I understand it to be a tentative argument for debate. It’s a prototype and needs fleshing out. Or sometimes it’s an argument designed to be provocative and promote thinking along the lines of “well if not that then what?”