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TRA is for Trance: On the Linguistics of Crossing Over

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The Great Traverse

No other mode of transport receives the musical attention that the train does. It's the trance, the rhythm of the wheel upon the tracks. That melancholy feeling of simultaneously going towards something and leaving something behind. This is a feeling right at the heart of the human experience,. uniting and separating into infinity. The great traverse. Platform nine and three quarters a threshold. You have to have courage to through the wall on the other side, your journey begins. Now, all you've got to do is walk straight up the wall between platforms nine and ten. Mest do it at a bit of a run, if you please. Teli something about the train has always called to us. What

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