Incantation

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–noun 

1. the chanting 

or 

uttering of words purporting to have magical power. 



2. the formula employed; a spell or charm.

3. magical ceremonies.

4. magic; sorcery. (巫術)

5. repetitious wordiness used to conceal a lack of content; obfuscation: Her prose too [often] resorts to incantation. 





　

The attractions of impromptu ritual are [a] constant in Me and You, in the incantatory [recitations] Christine records for her videos, the last rites she gives to a doomed goldfish, and the solo mating dances she performs at the margins of the shoe department—flashing the reflected light of a compact mirror toward an unwitting Richard or attaching ornamental socks to her ears. 



Any tenuous offer of an emotional or sexual bond is treated like a dangerous [dare]. 



Richard and Christine finally exchange some flirtatious banter—imagining the sidewalk beneath their feet as a timeline of their hypothetical relationship—but he's angered when she jumps impetuously into his car; Richard's jolly colleague Andrew (Brad Henke) [a]ffixes lurid come-ons to the windows of his house but hides in panic when teenage neighbors Rebecca (Najarra Townsend) and Heather (Natasha Slayton) call his bluff. 



bluff

以假象欺騙,虛張聲勢





opacity

the quality of being [opaque]

As with Basquiat, there's a certain dreamy [opacity] [to] Before Night Falls. 

obfuscate

to obfuscate a problem with [ex]traneous information.  

occult

of or pertaining to magic, astrology or any system supernatural 

They have special knowledge, [occult] beliefs, revolutionary health practices. hermetic alchemy 



sorcerer

If John’s illness resembles the [curse] put on Sleeping Beauty by an evil [sorcerer], 

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