fascinate - verb [with obj.] (usu. be fascinated) draw irresistibly the attention and interest of (someone): I've always been fascinated by other cultures | [with obj. and infinitive] she was fascinated to learn about this strange land.
- ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense 'bewitch, put under a spell'): from Latin fascinat- 'bewitched', from the verb fascinare, from fascinum 'spell, witchcraft'.

Larry King: If you could time travel, would you go forward or backward?
Stephen Hawking: I would go forward and find if M-theory is indeed the theory of everything.

Ieskatam: The Diamond Girls (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Aizdziedāšana, senlatv. ticība, ka dzirdot putnu dziedam no rīta «tukšā dūšā», ceļas visādas nelaimes: ja dumpis aizbrēc, smird dvaša; ja grieze aizgriež, nekož izkapts; ja strazds aizdzied, balss paliek skarba.

The time elapsed between Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake is nearly 20 years. Often people would say to him, "What's going on?" And he would say, "I had a good day today, I wrote a word." Now, for me, that's not really writing. That's simply putting a word down. And this kind of stasis, this kind of collapse, this kind of absolute obscurantism really has mired art for the last, I'd say 120 years. No-one's got anything to really contribute. And this lack of confidence - I mean, it's a crisis, really - is probably, to my mind, caused by Ice Cream Eyes.