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inexpressible
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Furthermore, even the form of his rhetorical question--posed, ostensibly, to confront the reader with the inexpressibility, the extraordinary quality of the emotional rapture corresponding to freedom--asserts both Equiano's voice of protest and his profound connection with biblical texts as essential both to the narrative of his experience and to his anti-slavery argument.
The lyric's figurative structure, in other words, insists on inexpressibility.
But we do have a vocabulary that acknowledges this inexpressibility.
 
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