The Grammar of Enchantment

The Grammar of Enchantment

On a wall in my office hangs a plaque purchased in Waco, Texas, at the Magnolia empire of Chip and Joanna Gaines. Its inscription reads, “Wisdom begins in wonder.” Underneath that plaque hangs a print of John Everett Millais’s painting The Boyhood of Raleigh in which two young boys listen captivated by an old sailor’s “tales of wonder on sea and land.” On my office door I have an image of the word mooreeffoc (coffee room backwards), first used b…