As the sun set behind the seven stone circles the people of Bisnaga were filled with a mixture of fear and joy, as men and women are when the miraculous crosses the frontier from the world of gods and enters the everyday, revealing to women and men that that frontier is not impenetrable, that the miraculous and the everyday are two halves of a single whole, and that we ourselves are the gods we seek to worship, and capable of mighty deeds.

Salman Rushdie: Victory City