[pegasus]

Unless all those people are transfixed into their own isolated, smartphone-mediated experience, as they are likely to be these days, then it's arguably "liminal" again. I.e. a lonely, deserted and uncanny place.

A Nina Simone song comes to mind: everyone's gone... to the moon...

[esperent]

I'm on a metro right now, it's full of conversation and there was even an accordion player in my previous train.