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“This is one of those stories where the feeling of the moment stands in for visual details.”

Moments Indescribable Words Fail Me Words Fail Words Failed

Book:The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

Source: The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that “words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was not true that there was no way to describe our experience. We had plenty of language to talk to each other about the horror of what was happening, and talk we did. If there was a communication problem it was that there were too many words; they were far too heavy and too specific to be inflicted upon others. If something was failing it was the functionality of routine, platitudinous language—the comforting clichés were now inapplicable and perfectly useless. We instinctively protected other people from the knowledge we possessed; we let them think that words failed, because we knew they didn’t want to be familiar with the vocabulary we used daily. We were sure they didn’t want to know what we did; we didn’t want to know it either.”

Words Illness Platitudes Cliches Communication Problem Words Failed

Book:The Book of My Lives

Source: The Book of My Lives