The endless transition period is giving us a little clearer picture of how the next president is going to govern.
I pictured a large ward holding endless beds of transitioning or near-transitioning patients, a perpetual drone of sobs from the waiting room, every hour another body wheeled away, a steady line of hearses idling in the parking lot like taxis at a train station.
But unlike the endless infinity symbol, the transition to this new reality is bound to have some bumps.
Dunwoody is not only outside city limits, it is what Atlantans call O.T.P., or "outside the perimeter," the freeway loop that, at least in psycho-geographical terms, delineates the transition from city to endless suburbia.
His offices — he has three of them, for various bureaucratic reasons — overflowed with books that now seem superfluous: endless volumes on the perestroika years, books about transitions to democratic governance.
So too has Spain's transition to democracy, the subject of endless self-eulogies whenever a suitable anniversary comes up.
"Thus, there will be neither accountability nor transition towards democracy but talks and endless discussions," he said.
The physical demands of a transition are high as you log endless hours traveling and attending meetings and face ever more work.
A stronger, respected civilian governance structure would have more authority to negotiate an orderly transition in lieu of the chaos and endless civil war that many dread.
The migratory locust, Locusta migratoria manilensis, undergoes a striking behavioral phase transition, from a solitary, essentially harmless animal to a seemingly endless cloud of voracious, traveling swarms that devour the vegetation in their path.
