The word soporific has appeared in 14 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 21 in “This Hong Kong Art Show Aims to Put You to Sleep” by Christy Choi:
New to the Hong Kong show is an installation from two local sound artists, Kin Lam, 32, and AK Kan, 30, that recreates the soporific feeling of being on Hong Kong public transportation.
“Hong Kong people, we sleep in buses and the MTR and the minibus,” Kan, a sound engineer, whose Cantonese name is Kan Hei-chun, said on a recent video call, using the shorthand term for the Hong Kong subway. “I used to sleep every time when I go to school and I just lay on the window, like that,” he said, making a leaning motion, “and just sleep like that. And I was thinking, ‘Why?’”
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