She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as "ballon", a lightness that is not only the negation of weight, but which actually seems to carry upwards and make for flight, and which is rarely found in thin dancers - as if the matter itself had here become lighter than air, so that the more there is of it the better it works. Karen Blixen
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Leontes is so absolutely fascinated by the physical beauty of Hermione that he believes she walks on air. He also believes that his love for her has effected a change in her. The idea of a ballon is to think of oneself as lighter than air and to fly with an unbound imagination.

Source: Seven Gothic Tales

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