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The page compresses itself into a single inward question, treating INSIDE PASSAGE as a hidden route through the self.

Its force comes from the way the phrase can remain both geographic and psychic at once. The speaker is not merely asking for direction, but for access to an inner channel that may no longer be easy to find.

Three words: Where is your Inside Passage. An address to the reader and to self — the Alaskan route posed as existential question.