http://wordie.org/words/ineffable Comments for the word 'Ineffable' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/ineffable#comments Something that it is impossible to apply the <a href="/words/f word">f word</a> to. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:56:17 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/ineffable#comments http://wordie.org/words/ineffable#comments "And this impression would continue to envelop in its liquidity, its ceaseless overlapping, the <em>motifs</em> which from time to time emerge, barely discernible, to plunge again and disappear and drown, recognised only by the particular kind of pleasure which they instil, impossible to describe, to recollect, to name, ineffable&#8212;did not our memory, like a labourer who toils at the laying down of firm foundations beneath the tumult of the waves, by fashioning for us facsimiles of those fugitive phrases, enable us to compare and to contrast them with those that follow."<br />-- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, p 228 of the Vintage International paperback edition Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:33:35 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/ineffable#comments http://wordie.org/words/ineffable#comments Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Dirk Gently Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:51:36 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/ineffable#comments