At The Gates The Threshold to the Unknown - Meditations about the Foreign. I am and always was fascinated with closed doors of any kind, doorways and other gateways, and the question what lies beyond the threshold, good or bad? There is that fear of the unknown in me, maybe to a certain extent in all of us. (a special form of irrational fear, the Germans call Angst) And then there is the excitement of moving from one state or quality to another, not knowing whether it will be