[-empyre-] fascinosum

[Judith Rodenbeck]

Ooh, good catch, moderator!

> "For example, Rudolph Otto [9] in The Idea of the Holy produced a
> battery of Latin terms that suggest aesthetic dimensions in religion.
> He wrote of human confrontation with the "numinous," which is "wholly
> other" or outside normal experience and which is indescribable,
> terrifying, fascinating, characterized by dread and awe. The
> experience is of a mysterium tremendum et fascinosum, an "awe-filled
> and fascinating mystery."
> 
> 
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/latin_to_english/religion/905612-numen_tremendum.htm>
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That oceanic feeling:
 http://books.google.com/books?id=KPQz6N_-CooC&lpg=PA23&dq=fascinosum&lr=&pg
=PA23

There's also this, somewhat more prosaic, but relevant, I think, to
relational aesthetics:

http://books.google.com/books?id=LYTzqc9MetoC&lpg=PA150&dq=fascinosum&pg=PA1
50

And on cadavers:

http://books.google.com/books?id=uBtjfsPAaM4C&lpg=PA72&dq=fascinosum&pg=PA72