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“To propose that something like pagan magic was alive and well in the secular world around us and that this was not despite modernity but because of it - this was no less appropriately inappropriate than Leiris’s question as to the color of the sacred. As a question that tore at its own moorings, as a question that begged the question, it was no less bewildering than it was mocking, light hearted, and unsettling”

Michael Taussig (2009:34), What Color is the Sacred?
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