“…Middle grounds
are sandbars or mudflats found in the middle of a tidal channel;
water flows on either side of them. They characteristically occur
near the entrance or exit of a constricted passage… The politician
infallibly steers for the metaphoric middle ground, th4e shifting
shallows created by current events. Not so the honest sailor.”
- Franklin Burroughs
in Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape
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