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April 23, 2024 #words

penetralia: the innermost parts of a building; a secret or hidden place

Up next Virginia Woolf “Let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry. There is nothing ready made for him. He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out. Probably it will be something laughable.” sprezzatura studied carelessness, especially as a characteristic quality or style of art or literature

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