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reliquary
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(noun) a container or shrine in which sacred relics are kept
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liminal
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ambiguous; occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold
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A frontier has two sides. It is an interface, a threshold, a liminal site, with all the danger and promise of liminality.
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A frontier has two sides. It is an interface, a threshold, a liminal site, with all the danger and promise of liminality.
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5 years, 3 months ago
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Capitalism, which ceases to exist if it is not expanding its empire, establishes an ever-moving frontier, and its yang conquistadors forever pursue El Dorado. You cannot be too rich, they cry. My realistic fictions are mostly about people on the yin side of capitalism: housewives, waitresses, librarians, keepers of dismal little motels. The people who live, you might say, on the rez, in the broken world the conquistadors leave behind.
Capitalism, which ceases to exist if it is not expanding its empire, establishes an ever-moving frontier, and its yang conquistadors forever pursue El Dorado. You cannot be too rich, they cry. My realistic fictions are mostly about people on the yin side of capitalism: housewives, waitresses, librarians, keepers of dismal little motels. The people who live, you might say, on the rez, in the broken world the conquistadors leave behind.