[LMB] (news& chat) TSK #3 update

[paal at gis.net]

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> Paal said...
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> > To me, passage denotes in effect a funneling situation of going
> > through something and experiencing something, rather than going
> > about a landscape with a lot of open territory that doesn't -force-
> > one to a particular path or set of specific alternative paths, pick
> > one and you're stuck on that path until you're on the other side of
> > the mountains... I prefer e.g. "journey" to "passage" if one is
> > dealing with terrain where one isn't being constrained to a physical
> > path with obstacles that keep on on the path.
> 
> To me, "passage" mostly resonates along "rite of passage" or "passing
> from  one life-stage to another" lines.  So if that suits what's going
> to be in  book 3, I think it would work very well.

Passage <== pass

"Passage tombs" involve emclosed "passages" that usually involved
somewhat cramped quarters going into where the bodies are... pass and
passage carry the meaning of something narrow or necking, that getting
through involves a constraining where there's enclosure and having to go
through a narrowed/constrained region either or both physically or
metaphorically, and there are are dangers involved.  "Journey" is a
trip, it may or may not involve danger, going through straits--has,
"passage through the strait of..." --passage being a transiting of a
narrow, sometimes dangerous area that goes from one region to another,
there's that sense of going through the constrained interstitial region.

It doesn't come off cogently to me because "wide world" and the concept
of being out in an wide world denotes an opening of options, and
openess, whereas "passage" involves, again, being enclosed/going through
a region where there isn't openness, there might be in the region before
going -into- the passage, and out on the other side --e.g., in Lord of
the Rings, when the characters go into/through the mountains, from out
in the open wide regions, into the constrained, dangerous, narrowed ways
where it's not out in the open and their options for where to go, are
very limited.

> (Caveat: I have only so far read "Beguilement"; from that I can
> envisage  some kind of "passage" in the above sense coming up for Dag
> and Fawn, but  for all I know, that might happen in "Legacy".)