{Dream: In a Limbo [continued]}[2nd February 1990]

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The term ‘limbo’* puzzled me at first, because in my dream I could not remember what it meant; but when I awoke it seemed highly appropriate: a kind of no-(man’s-)land between definite states or dynamic patterns. The dictionary definition,** however, is even more comprehensively appropriate, if somewhat startling:

‘limʹbo, n (pl. ~s). Region on border of hell where pre-Christian just men and unbaptised infants are confined; prison, durance; condition of neglect or oblivion. [ME, f. med. L phr. In limbo (LIMB²)]’

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*[See last previous entry]

**C[oncise/Complete] O[xford] D[ictionary]

***Curiously, it was the exact word which [sic] [W] used – not having heard of my dream – that same evening, during a rather heavy discussion, to describe our present state of uncertainty as regards my being ordained. The delay is tougher on wives and families. <900203>

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