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So, liminality, so the term that actually originates from the Latin word, lamin or lemon, which directly translates into threshold. That's what it means. And historically, the concept was formalized by the ethnographer and folklorist Arnold Van Genep in his seminal studies on the rights of passage. And Van Genep, he utilized the term to describe the middle stage of a ritualistic process. So it's a transitional period in human life or societal structure where the previous entity has entirely dissolved. But the new structure is not yet formed. In his early academic iterations, liminality, this was fundamentally concerned with the human stance of becoming, representing the ambiguous threshold between an established phase of existence and the next phase of existence. So in his pure psychological manifestation, if you want to call it that, liminality, what it does is it represents an in-between zone. So it's a period of vulnerability, suspension, it's sort of what came before and what has not happened.