Bill's vampire nature fascinates Sookie in particular because she can't hear his thoughts.
Since the dawn of thinking, fire has held mystical properties that, despite its simplicity, still fascinates as well as frightens us.
Demosthenes has at command all the discursive brilliancy which fascinates a festal audience.
None the less, in the issue, it is the very element which goes beyond an appeal to facts - it is the depth and purity of Butler's moral nature - which fascinates the reader, and wins praise from Matthew Arnold or Goldwin Smith or even Leslie Stephen.
