the doorway is a liminal space, a boundary between two states of being, "inside" and "outside". to enter a doorway is to transition between these states, and for a brief moment one is neither inside nor outside, but in a non-state of profound uncertainty and ambiguity, where conventional order is dissolved into infinite possibilities - but sooner or later that ambiguity must coalesce into one of the predetermined states, and order is reestablished under new conditions: what once was outside is now inside, or what once was inside is now outside. the transition itself, or the ritual space reserved for it, however, cannot fully be encompassed by either state.