betwixt and between

The city itself has been stuck betwixt and between.

It’s that betwixt and between period, when the light is lowering but you can still get tomatoes and peaches at the market, still get away with short sleeves.

As if to acknowledge that now people often don’t feel they exist unless they exist digitally, and the way we increasingly float in the liminal space betwixt and between.

“I think some places just have more emotions attached to them, and they draw haints to them, like ants going for the sugar bowl. Ghosts are attracted to feelings—sadness and happiness and all the others betwixt and between. They can’t feel like you and I can, so sometimes they cling to the emotions of all the living folks around them, so they can remember.”

To mandarins like Virginia Woolf, it was irredeemably middlebrow; she referred to it as the “Betwixt and Between Company.”