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Where every story sags, every road forgets its name, and nobody plants a flag.
means The point or part roughly equidistant from the edges, ends, or extremes of something — neither beginning nor end, neither side nor center-most but the broad space between.
from From Old English 'middel,' which traces back to a Proto-Germanic root (compare Dutch 'middel,' German 'Mittel') and ultimately a Proto-Indo-European root '*medhyo-' meaning 'middle.' That same ancient root fans out across languages — it's a likely cousin of Latin 'medius' (giving us 'medium,' 'mediate,' 'median') and Greek 'mesos.' So the very idea of in-between-ness is itself an old, well-traveled middle child of the word family.
- middle child
- Statistically less likely to be photographed by parents
- earth's middle
- Inner core is hotter than the sun's surface
- middle ages
- Spanned roughly a thousand restless years
- golden mean
- Aristotle called virtue the middle between extremes
- middle finger
- Used as an insult since ancient Greece
middle earth — fictional continent in tolkien's works, spanning from the silmarillion through lord of the rings
middle passage — transatlantic slave trade route, 1500s-1800s, forcibly transported 12 million africans
middle kingdom — ancient egypt's 12th dynasty, 1991-1802 bce, golden age of pharaonic rule