The phrase passing lines" is a play on words that signals the quite serious play of people as they move-or attempt to move-across geopolitical borders as well as the discursive and bodily acts by which one person"relates to another not as an other but as fundamentally the same or, perhaps more accurately as almost the same but not quite• The phrase “passing lines” is a play on words that signals the quite serious play of people as they move—or attempt to move—across geopolitical borders as well as the discursive and bodily acts by which one person “relates” to another not as an other but as fundamentally the same or, perhaps more accurately, as “almost the same, but not quite