"Behind that door," writes Haslam, "might be stimulation, intoxication, a cross-dresser, mad dancers, eye contact with your first love, enchantment, liberation and new life".
Suppose that the laws of magic say that the first spell cast on a given day matches the enchantment that midnight.
For a moment -- just a brief second of enchantment -- I felt weightless, a moth riding light.
And "Climates" is as good as Stendhal on the first phase of enchantment, in which the lover undergoes what Stendhal calls "crystallization" — the ability to perceive somebody ordinary as a magical, dazzling, twinkling disco ball of fascination.
I met Guy on Twitter when I tweeted that I started a book club online and we were going to read Enchantment first.
The views of monuments, landscapes, and local society in the show have a virginal quality of first looks, conveying the enchantment of a strange land and its even stranger antiquity.
Sondheim has explained that the mood of this sequence –particularly as orchestrated by his regular collaborator Jonathan Tunick for a smallish Broadway cast – was meant to evoke the choruses of enchantment Walt Disney first introduced into his animated features in the 1940s.
The daughter brought a friend she introduced as "Carlos from South America". For Margaret, an attractive brunet who was some years older than Carlos, it was enchantment at first sight.
Over the last few days, after the right out the gate chairwoman fiasco and the tantrums of the Bernie fanatics, suddenly civility and decency came parachuting in like the allied troops of our soul and for the first time in years, enchantment finally came roaring back with a vengeance and it looked...and smelled just as wonderful as my long lost love.
The second part of this enchantment is wrapped up in the number of ways Bethesda allows the players to interact with the world it has created.
