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Fascination about snakes or in snakes are both wrong. I would say fascination of/for snakes depending on context. If he likes learning about snakes, then he has a fascination for snakes. If he likes snakes in general, he has a fascination of snakes.
I'd use "by" in that sentence but you're more likely to hear: The film I saw yesterday was fascinating. Both "fascinated by" and "fascinated with" can be used depending on the sentence.
'Entertain a fascination for' floise . adrien New Member. Helsinki. Suisse, Français Jan 7, 2008 #4 ...
A person has a fascination with something they are very interested in (her fascination with the royal family), whereas something interesting holds a fascination for a person (words have always held a fascination for me). The Oxford English Corpus shows that the distinction is often blurred today, but it should be maintained in careful writing.
Hi lupo, ah.... the wonder (and fascination) of context! Yes, you can use "wonder" in that sense as a collocation with "have". I Googled "you have the wonder of" and I got 1,850,000 hits [oh, all right then, 55], not all of them, of course, in the sense you intend, but many of them give good examples (and maybe some ideas for your song!).
Possibly, the author thought that this old usage sat well with the romantic fascination felt in the West for the cities of Turkestan. Maclean was a member of the political elite, and it is well known that elites often adopt particular usages in order to set themselves apart from the masses.
Okay, I've done a bit of looking on that there th'internet, and yes, some people do seem to use that term (which, for mysterious reasons, I don't remember coming across before) in the sense I want, which is specifically: nostalgia for a time or place you cannot possibly have lived in.
--- La fascination puissante qu'exerce sur l'âme, comme sur les organes, le passage monotone et continu de quelque chose errante que ce soit, me possède et ne laisse pas mes yeux se détourner un moment de leur spectacle. M. DE GUÉRIN, Journal intime, 1835, p. 235. Rem. Dans cet emploi, chose reste subst. fém. variable.