Postby Fleegle » Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:59 pm
I never really thought of Cantr in terms of magic realism. I think of it more as a world that has its own unique laws of physics - they differ from ours, but presumably have some kind of internal logic -- this game being run on a database, this is quite literally true. The Cantrians more or less accept the way the world works, but some attribute the "wonders" of nature as acts of a creator or creators. In a sense you could say it is a kind of magic insofar as the Cantrians, to my knowledge, haven't developed a scientific theory, so as far as they are concerned everything around them is magical.
I would take magic to be supernatural occurences, whether they happen regularly or not. I am willing to allow that there is a kind of magic or miracle that occurs when the programmers make a change to the Cantr world. I prefer to think of them as miracles, since miracles are not strictly speaking supernatural, at least if we consider acts of God or gods as natural.