Morton 143: "The fascinating is one of two aspects of the numinous, along with the tremendous"
144: "the numinous is a displacement of human-kindness into a lordly, divine dimension. The capacity to be fascinated by the numinous is aesthetic appreciation restored to its wider-bandwidth, subscendent version, the one fringed with an aura of the sexual and erotic, with disgust, or horror, or excess. Our capacity for fascination is what fuels solidarity [...] Fascination is the aesthetic gravitational pull of entities toward one another, the dynamics of solidarity"