limina

Like the Latin word "limina" it describes a threshold - we can't go back and we may not want to go ahead - and it conjures the anxiety that we experience in those moments that require us to intentionally leave our comfort zones behind.

NextReformation 2009

Like the Latin word "limina" it describes a threshold - we can't go back and we may not want to go ahead - and it conjures the anxiety that we experience in those moments that require us to intentionally leave our comfort zones behind.

NextReformation 2009

Like the Latin word "limina" it describes a threshold - we can't go back and we may not want to go ahead - and it conjures the anxiety that we experience in those moments that require us to intentionally leave our comfort zones behind.

NextReformation 2009

Actually, with this example of a limina, thinking about it, it seems that we might well prefer the determinacy warp unresolved, the quirk left dewarped.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

Any paraphrase needs to take into account the limina of the as-yet-unread outcome we, as readers, are constructing from our expectations of how the dynamics will play out.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

With the limina, the same question works just as well, but we do have a clear notion of what might have happened to focus on, so we can be more specific: "Did X happen?"

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

In fact, Shakespeare essentially does create an unresolved limina around the question of Gertrude's involvement in the murder.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

You could trace a limina in that, sure, an uncertainty, with that "To be or not to be" speech seen as a weighing of options aimed at establishing the truth (i.e. epistemic actuality) of what he most wants to do.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

We now have a limina, a visitation that might have actually happened or might have been entirely imagined by a Hamlet on the edge of madness.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

With the unresolved limina of Gertrude's involvement only fuelling his existential crisis, trapped in a tangle of determinacy and authoritative warp, Hamlet has only his affective judgement to fall back.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010