Enchantment

"Enchanted things and bodies seem to be immersed in limpid water beneath which they glitter like diamonds or pearls… their nimbus dazzles us and protects them. To make them radiate thus, we content ourselves most often with immersing them in the transparency of language or in the brilliance of style and we sometimes succeed: we see them shine behind clear words or stiffen or settle beneath their rigor when they do not shrivel up beneath the ugliness or dryness of terms… to perfect the miracle, one can only by turn immerse words and languages in the spell of a song [chant], whence comes the word enchantment."Michel Serres - The Troubadour of Knowledge