![Mills’s post about cosmopsis’s (possessives, Chicago Manual of Style style) post about “liminality,” as well as all the insightful exchanges about these posts, reminded me, as it seemed to remind them, of how awesome the experience of “liminality” is, and how awesome it is that there exists the word “liminality” to describe the experience of “liminality.”
Liminality—I think one of things that makes “liminality” such an amazing experience is that, although we’re seldom aware of the fact, we usually neglect luminality, favoring its much more commonly employed lexical buddies.
“Preliminary” is a good example; we use this word frequently, and perhaps for this reason never really contemplate (at least I don’t [until now]) it sans its prefix.
Though I do think (when I do actually think about it) that the word “preliminary” is a bit bizarre. If “liminal,” in addition to its denoting “threshold-ality,” also denotes something “of or relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process,” then PRE-liminary points to some point even more preliminary than the first preliminary—a prepreliminary!
We also speak frequently of sub-liminal meanings, and less frequently of those that are supra-liminal.
“Preliminality,” “subliminality,” “supraliminality”—(These might be neologisms, along with any other words in this post that may appear to be misspelled, but that’s all right, right?) LIMINALITY is so awesome because it’s always dodging us; we can be before it, below it, above it, but oh so seldom can we actually BE it!
Talking about liminality is difficult; I think of the liminality experience as that experience that can manisfest itself in pretty much any medium; you know, that experience you can’t really be experiencing if you’re only thinking about the experience; that experience that evaporates as soon as you become conscious of the fact that you’re experiencing the experience.
Liminality, spirituality, unreality, swing, magic, theology, mysticism, post-structuralism, losing oneself, IT—IT goes by many names, but then again it doesn’t, because it really can’t be named.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kobzdlkHQ11qzp6u3o1_r1_500.jpg)
Mills’s post about cosmopsis’s (possessives, Chicago Manual of Style style) post about “liminality,” as well as all the insightful exchanges about these posts, reminded me, as it seemed to remind them, of how awesome the experience of “liminality” is, and how awesome it is that there exists the word “liminality” to describe the experience of “liminality.”
Liminality—I think one of things that makes “liminality” such an amazing experience is that, although we’re seldom aware of the fact, we usually neglect luminality, favoring its much more commonly employed lexical buddies.
“Preliminary” is a good example; we use this word frequently, and perhaps for this reason never really contemplate (at least I don’t [until now]) it sans its prefix.
Though I do think (when I do actually think about it) that the word “preliminary” is a bit bizarre. If “liminal,” in addition to its denoting “threshold-ality,” also denotes something “of or relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process,” then PRE-liminary points to some point even more preliminary than the first preliminary—a prepreliminary!
We also speak frequently of sub-liminal meanings, and less frequently of those that are supra-liminal.
“Preliminality,” “subliminality,” “supraliminality”—(These might be neologisms, along with any other words in this post that may appear to be misspelled, but that’s all right, right?) LIMINALITY is so awesome because it’s always dodging us; we can be before it, below it, above it, but oh so seldom can we actually BE it!
Talking about liminality is difficult; I think of the liminality experience as that experience that can manisfest itself in pretty much any medium; you know, that experience you can’t really be experiencing if you’re only thinking about the experience; that experience that evaporates as soon as you become conscious of the fact that you’re experiencing the experience.
Liminality, spirituality, unreality, swing, magic, theology, mysticism, post-structuralism, losing oneself, IT—IT goes by many names, but then again it doesn’t, because it really can’t be named.
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