Definition of the Day 8-1-15 — Words Cannot Describe . . .

WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE, phr. A standard introduction to a descriptive passage that according to its author should not exist. More accurately, “My words cannot describe . . .”

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–from the revised and expanded edition of The American Heretic’s Dictionary, the best modern successor to Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary

 

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