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Representability (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the dream's preference for whatever can be pictured: thoughts that cannot become images are recast into new, even odd, words until they can.

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Representability (n.) drives ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the dream to swap abstract for concrete: an abstract thought is to a dream what a political leading article is to an illustrator.