From c1b80f8357bab096fcc4eda71045c1e8bf628e8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 18:40:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/sawtooth/limerent-object/20.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/writing/sawtooth/limerent-object/20.md b/writing/sawtooth/limerent-object/20.md index 5e4fdf1a..77341121 100644 --- a/writing/sawtooth/limerent-object/20.md +++ b/writing/sawtooth/limerent-object/20.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ I have noticed over the years that we tend to place benches in the strangest of Or, here at work, we place them facing a parking lot. I know, of course, that this bench is here because it is intended to be a place to wait for someone to come pick you up in our car-ridden town. I *know* this, and yet this bench feels so fantastically pointless. There is one in front of short-term parking which feels far more apt a place for such a thing, but no, perhaps that was not enough: this one is along the side of the building, facing that overflow portion of the lot that on some days sees no use at all. -There is this occasional trend along certain places of the Internet, I've been told, of seeking out so-called liminal places. I think that the term is ill-fitting, as liminality has a very specific meaning. I do not think that many of the places described as liminal that show up on social media and forums on the 'net are liminal so much as abandoned and vaguely spooky. They are not a place between, they are not a place one transits, not a border. They are simply poorly lit or forgotten. +There is this occasional fad among certain groups on the Internet, I've been told, of seeking out so-called liminal places. I think that the term is ill-fitting. Liminality has a very specific meaning. I do not think that many of the places described as liminal that show up on social media and forums on the 'net are liminal so much as abandoned and vaguely spooky. They are not a place between, they are not a place one transits, not a border. They are simply poorly lit or forgotten. The important thing about liminality, though, is not that a place be forgotten and certainly that it not be in any way scary, but that it should slip and slide beneath your interest. Liminality requires some form of passing through, It needs to be a border that you cross or a place that you enter for the sole purpose of exiting. Abandoned shopping malls are not literal. A barn, canted awkwardly to the side with age, standing alone in a field is not liminal.