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TRA is for Trance: On the Linguistics of Crossing Over

The Emerald

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The Trance of Walking

For hundreds of thousands of years, human rience moved at the pace of walking. The modern traveller may say they crave somewhere, but they may just be looking for anywhere. Tra la la tra is, or traverse, the great traverse. How many miles? How many cliff faces? How many wide canyons and steep valleys)? How many deserts and waste lands? How many skies have we traversed? Circled the world, my friends circled the world, round the world, around the world. Dot gama ite wani. For those who zealously hoped that the train would lead us to salvation, the rude wake up call is that collapsing material time and space doesn't have

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