 Explaining the supernatural world or presenting it as extraordinary would immediately reduce its legitimacy relative to the natural world.The reader would consequently disregard the supernatural as false testimony.In his essay "The Baroque and the Marvelous Real", Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier defined the baroque by a lack of emptiness, a departure from structure or rules, and an "extraordinary" abundance (plenitude) of disorienting detail (citing Mondrian as its opposite).