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  2. Limbo - Wikipedia

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    If heaven is a state of supernatural happiness and union with God, and Hell is understood as a state of torture and separation from God then, in this view, the Limbo of Infants, although technically part of hell (the outermost part, limbo meaning 'outer edge' or 'hem') is seen as a sort of intermediate state. The question of Limbo is not ...

  3. Liminality - Wikipedia

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    Brooks states that the marginalized characters in The Lives of the Saints, Drift Street and Praise are able to stay in "shit creek" (an undesirable setting or situation) and "diver[t]... flows" of these "creeks", thus claiming their rough settings' "liminality" (being in a border situation or transitional setting) and their own "abjection ...

  4. First circle of hell - Wikipedia

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    Within Limbo is a great castle surrounded by seven walls; Dante passes through its seven gates to reach the verdant meadows where the first circle's souls dwell. [ 6 ] The souls in Limbo are not punished directly, but are condemned to "suffer harm through living in desire"; [ 4 ] their punishment is to be left desirous of salvation.

  5. What makes a state a state? Why places like Kosovo live in limbo

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  6. Liminal being - Wikipedia

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    A legendary liminal being is a legendary creature that combines two distinct states of simultaneous existence within one physical body. This unique perspective may provide the liminal being with wisdom and the ability to instruct, making them suitable mentors , whilst also making them dangerous and uncanny .

  7. Limbo (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Limbo (DC Comics), a fictional location in the DC Comics; Limbo (Marvel Comics), a fictional dimension in the Marvel Comics universe; First circle of hell or Limbo, a level of hell in the Inferno by Dante Alighieri "Limbo", a poem by Seamus Heaney in Wintering Out "Limbo", an 1897 essay by Vernon Lee; Limbo, a novel by Andy Secombe

  8. ‘Limbo’ Film Review: Refugees Await Asylum in ... - AOL

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    Displaced men dream of Europe but are stuck on a Scottish island in Ben Sharrock’s spot-on sophomore feature “A musician who doesn’t play music is dead” is an aphorism that gets mentioned ...

  9. Bardo - Wikipedia

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    But it can also be interpreted as any transitional experience, any state that lies between two other states. Its original meaning, the experience of being between death and rebirth, is the prototype of the bardo experience, while the six traditional bardos show how the essential qualities of that experience are also present in other ...