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Liminality is a major theme in Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald, in which the characters live between sea and land on docked boats, becoming liminal people. Saul Bellow's "varied uses of liminality...include his Dangling Man, suspended between civilian life and the armed forces" [63] at "the onset of the dangling days". [64]
By extension, liminal beings of a mixed, hybrid nature appear regularly in myth, legend and fantasy. A legendary liminal being is a legendary creature that combines two distinct states of simultaneous existence within one physical body.
Liminality, the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage; Liminal deity, a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; Liminal being, mythical being of ambiguous existence; Liminal state, English translation of bardo in Tibetan Buddhism
The word liminal, first attested to in English in 1884, comes from the Latin word limen, meaning 'threshold'. [3] Liminality is a term given currency in the twentieth century by British cultural anthropologist Victor Turner. [4]
While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...
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Its original meaning, the experience of being between death and rebirth, is the prototype of the bardo experience, while the six traditional bardos show how the essential qualities of that experience are also present in other transitional periods.
Some dog breeds are simply cleaner than others. However, exactly what defines “clean” depends on who you ask. Some breeds are relatively low-maintenance and may not require as much brushing ...