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The Play of the Waves

By Joe Knowles

The word “ineffable” is a paradox: If something is truly too great for words, why have a word for it? And is there anything really too profound for language to express? Certainly not God, whose own enlisted theologians, of every faith and epoch, have never failed to demonstrate His rather pointed effability with their very eloquence. The same goes for beauty,… return to article

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