I'm So Liminal, I'm Over There.
On the edge of the edge
Liminal spaces are uncanny. Stonehenge, Roswell and an undisclosed enclave of infinite implausibility within the brains of any former member of the rock group Marillion are all good examples of liminal locations, but the most famous is the town of Trepanning in Cornwall, UK.
Trepanning exists behind a sub-atomic quantum peep hole. It is a parallel world that has been described as “a village so remote, it lies on its own outskirts”. The people of Trepanning describe themselves thus:
“I’m so liminal, I’m over there’.
The village does not appear on any official maps - except its own - and no roads lead in or out of the village. An entire alternate reality of the uncanny exists in a Mobius strip of four dimensional spacetime smaller and thicker than two short Plancks and four-to-six times shorter than a wasp fart.
About the Creator
Ian Vince
Erstwhile non-fiction author, ghost & freelance writer for others, finally submitting work that floats my own boat, does my own thing. I'll deal with it if you can.
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The Piggy Project
I’ve had so many names in this life I lose track of which ones were ever really mine and which ones I wore because someone needed me to. Some were handed to me before I had words to refuse them, before I knew what they meant, before I knew I could say no. Most weren’t meant to hurt. That doesn’t mean they didn’t leave marks. Marks that told me who I belong to, who I am by way of who claims me, recognizes me in the good and bad, who walks beside me.
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I actually had to Google the village of Trepanning and found your Medium post and socialscrutiny.org... The name is totally believable as a West Country village! 😅 But are you socialscrutiny.org? Nice work as always 😃🙏