Scholars Mind

Are We There Yet? · Section 9

The Lovely and the Liminal

The places you were never supposed to stop. It begins in a doorway — the threshold your brain treats as a filing boundary, which is why you forget what you came in for — then asks why the in-between grips us. The internet answered with The Backrooms, a corridor that exists only to be passed through. Kant supplies the key; Turner, Monet, Beckett and Eno supply the rest.

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