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  • My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.

    Grace Paley (2014). “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories”, p.85, Macmillan