Saturday, January 3, 2009

"Are you coming or going?": Liminality in the Lobby

This morning, reading a NYT piece about how NY building owners are fancying up their lobbies to entice new residents, I came across this sentence:


"Not quite public, but not quite private either, the lobby occupies a liminal state in one’s home life, and with that ambiguity comes a set of priorities that can shift and, oftentimes, conflict."


I think I wrote that paper in grad school.

3 comments:

Lisa B. said...

That is hilarious. I always wondered what happened to cultural studies--apparently, it freelances for the Times.

Clint Gardner said...

LIMINAL! Woo hoo! English majors unite!

Dr Write said...

Oh NYT! How you love your level of writing! Does that mean I have to tell my students that it's written the level of the English grad student?