ABSTRACT
Space without doors evokes a terrifying condition of endlessness and pointlessness, but doors make space habitable, giving us the room or capacity for home and world and self. This role in cosmogony is recognised in the sense of reverence that touches people whenever they approach a threshold. The obstacle of the door not only marks beginning and end, it is the beginning of ends, as evident in the etymology of ‘limit’. In the one moment, the door separates and connects (see Eliade, 1971; Berger, 1984; Phillips, 1993: 83ff.).
