On one side the curators, who talk like this: "When Prince invites us to ogle Brooke Shields in her prepubescent nakedness, his impulse has less to do with his desire to savour the lubricious titillations that it was shot to spark in its original context … than with a profound fascination for the child star's story".
Spend the rest of that meal discussing the Han Dynasty, or developments in Macao, or the profound Chinese fascination with gambling, and a connection will be made that generates friendship and an enduring interest in meeting again to pursue common goals.
In the end, what is so profound about his fascination with numbers and lists?
We have a profound distrust, yet fascination, with people not being who they say they are.
Those included "the propagation of truly deep and beautiful mathematical ideas (not just 'mathematical games,' far from it!); the intense battling of pseudoscience and related ideas; the invention of superb magic tricks; the love for beautiful poetry; the fascination with profound philosophical ideas; the elusive border between nonsense and sense … and on and on and on and on," Hofstadter said.
Learning geometry need not be relegated to the high school; studying and discovering mathematics is, in fact, a process, one as beautiful and profound to many as Heller's fascination with design.
Humboldt's love for and fascination with the natural world certainly were profound.
Sure, back then, the Mosel had its secret admiration society, in which a select few indulged its fascination with the incremental variations in slate-based terroir, as revealed in profound detail by these German rieslings.
Unfortunately, it also has no life of its own, apart from its fascination with Mr. Allen's film, an odd turn of events considering what a profound influence "Annie Hall" has had on the last three decades of independent cinema.
Why this fascination with death?
