Is it possible to truly understand anything that you have not experienced? This question was only briefly mentioned in the Plutarch excerpt, and its real purpose was to prove another point altogether, but it got me to thinking about art, particularly writing. Even an incredibly good writer with vivid description and extraneous detail can often not convey an event or an idea to someone who has not experienced it or has not been through something similar. Though Plato told men still in their youth of things, if they perceived the meaning at all, it was well into old age.
With artificial language and discourse, nothing is going to be properly received by the audience. However there are still very well written accounts of experience that will in no way be understood by anyone else. It's like an inside joke from the popular girls at the lunch table, where you just had to have been there. Unless you took the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, you won't know how it felt to be Further. What are the limits to what can be described in literature? How far can we take someone? It's not something I've figured out yet, but it's definitely something I'm going to test.