At death, the body enters upon a brief liminal stage which ends at the committal. |
The sea is the home of selkies, mermaids, these liminal creatures that slip back and forth between states as between elements. |
It's a book that's always beginning, where everything is introductory, liminal, prefatory. |
As far as Russian folk belief is concerned, during this liminal period the body still retains some vestige of life. |
The airport fills in as a liminal zone where one's own otherness becomes more visible, if not necessarily legible. |
The shojo is located as a liminal identity between childhood and adulthood. |