Today, at the Wellcome Trust, I saw an old poster for Julia Pastrana, who was born with hyperpilosity and travelled the world as a ‘freak’ known as The Nondescript.
Turns out ‘nondescript’ used to mean something like ‘transcendent’, irreducible to your measly human categories.
Tonight I watched Captain America: Civil War (Russo and Russo 2016). Turns out that that is no longer the meaning of ‘nondescript’.
Mark Bould 