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ArthurEdens ago

There's a Hans Christian Andersen story called the red shoes where a girl dances in red shoes in church and the shoes don't stop dancing, so she has to chop off her feet. Bowie references it in Let's Dance.

userdeletedtwice ago

enthusiasm Origin early 17th century (in sense 2): from French enthousiasme, or via late Latin from Greek enthousiasmos, from enthous ‘possessed by a god, inspired’ (based on theos ‘god’).