Accepting the irrational sounds contradictory, as it must, but most of us, if not all of us, already understand this and operate within irrationality's strange rules of reason, even while we pretend we don't—as also we must.

Why this, why now, why? Common questions when we are faced with seemingly arbitrary facts. When circumstances seem particular yet not compelled by some organizing principle, we become wary that we don't understand all at play.

Is magic real? Being defined as the supernatural, it clearly is not natural, and so no, it is not real. But with contradictions present in so many very real distinctions in our lives, we might expect the magical to be present in a very real sense.