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a threshold that gives you amnesia just for crossing it
means The opening in a wall, framed and usually fitted with a door, through which you pass from one space into another.
from A plain compound of two old English words: 'door' (Old English 'duru/dor', a cousin of Dutch 'deur' and German 'Tür', and ultimately related to Latin 'fores' and Greek 'thyra') joined to 'way' (Old English 'weg', the path or means of going). So literally 'the way through the door' — the language doing exactly what it says, no mystery required.
- the effect
- Walking through doorways literally makes you forget things
- event boundary
- Your brain files memories as you pass through
- superstition
- Carry a bride over the threshold, dodge bad luck
- earthquake myth
- Standing in one is no longer safest advice
- liminal space
- Neither room you left nor the one ahead
for instance
propylaea of the parthenon — monumental entrance gateway to the acropolis in athens, built 437-432 bce
ishtar gate of babylon — glazed blue brick gateway dedicated to the goddess ishtar in ancient iraq