sportello / door / threshold

[Don Antenen]

>From Heidegger ('Poetry, Language, and Thought'):

“The threshold is the ground-beam that bears the doorway as a whole. It
sustains the middle in which the two, the outside and the inside,
penetrate each other. The threshold bears the between. What goes out
and goes in, in the between, is joined in the between’s dependability.
The dependability of the middle must never yield either way. The
settling of the between needs something that can endure, and is in this
sense hard. The threshold, as the settlement of the between, is hard
because pain has petrified it. But the pain that became appropriated to
stone did not harden into the threshold to congeal there. The pain
presences unflagging in the threshold, as pain.”

I think it is interesting to think of a threshold or a door not as the place where inside and outside meet - but as the moment they penetrate each other.  This is the only practical insight I've ever gleamed from Heidegger.

I'm not trying to connect this to IV necessarily, just sayin'...

all the best,
Don