"...the notion of the 'outside' is expressed in many European languages by a word that means 'at the door' (fores in Latin is the door of the house, thyrathen in Greek literally means 'at the threshold'). The outside is not another space that resides beyond a determinate space, but rather, it is the passage, the exteriority that gives access--in a word, it is its face, its eidos.

The threshold is not, in this sense, another thing with respect to the limit; it is, so to speak, the experience of the limit itself, the experience of being-within an outside. This ek-stasis is the gift that singularity gathers from the empty hands of humanity."

Giorgio Agamben/The Coming Community