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{{a|glossary|{{image|Quo Vadis|jpg|}}}}{{dpn|/ɪnˈɛfəbᵊl/|n}}Indescribable, usually on account of sheer wondrousness or cosmic scale. It doesn’t, literally, mean “incomprehensible” — but it sort of does, because not being able to articulate something is little different to being unable to understand it. I suppose one can’t describe the soaring beauty of Allegri’s ''Miserere'', Beethoven’s ''Pathetique'' or Status Quo’s ''Piledriver'' — but is that because it is beyond comprehension of mortal mind?
{{a|glossary|{{image|Quo Vadis|jpg|}}}}{{dpn|/ɪnˈɛfəbᵊl/|n}}Indescribable, usually on account of sheer wondrousness or cosmic scale. It doesn’t, literally, mean “incomprehensible” — but it sort of does, because not being able to articulate something is little different to being unable to understand it. I suppose one can’t describe the soaring beauty of Allegri’s ''Miserere'', Beethoven’s ''Pathetique'' or Status Quo’s ''Piledriver'' — but is that because it is beyond comprehension of mortal mind?
Ineffability — the ability to do worthwhile things that no other mortal hand or eye can frame, or at any rate weather the colossal [[tedium]] needed to frame — is one of the twin pillars a private practice lawyer’s ongoing profitability. She must deliver, over a prudent period of [[Time and attendance|time]], the kind of value that presents to the [[muggle]] world, incontrovertibly ''as'' value, whilst it not being at all clear in what exact ''way'' it is valuable. It needs just to ''be'' valuable, ineffably, in a way that cannot be [[Reductionism|reduced]] to its parts. For that which cannot be [[Reductionism|reduced]] cannot be [[Outsourcing|outsourced]], [[automated]] or programmatised.


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