Indeed, at least since Authors of the Impossible (2010), I have insisted that myth or story sometimes results in very real and otherwise completely anomalous physical effects—that reality itself has everything to do with how we tell it. Basically, I have read myth in realist terms as the paranormal—that is, as the very dramatic and spontaneous experience in the physical historical world of us writing us, almost always, please note, in traumatic or marginalizing contexts that have everything to do with the social readings of myth and religion of my academic training.
