BORDERLANDS In some of the places where boundaries meet there can be a great convergence of traffic, hordes of people going each way-- adventurers, merchants, pilgrims, tourists. Someone's life is hard on one side of the line, maybe it would be easier over there. Meanwhile on the other side it's the same for someone else. But there are other places that get the name border where no one cares who crosses, great miles full of everything but guards and barriers. Those who travel there are not wanderers, they go with great purpose from place to place. But none of the purposes have to do with finding something different where you arrive. The distinction between one kind of borderland and the other is like that between the realms where talk and action are different things, and it makes sense to say, "all talk and no action," and the zones where to speak and to act are the same thing. There is no one to enforce the difference between the two kinds of borderland, but seekers stuck in one find the difference is ineradicable, two kingdoms side by side but as separate as two worlds.