All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless façade.
...according to Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living (1982).
I'm not sure whether I agree with the "windowless façade," but the existance of a "guarded entrance"? Perhaps. I wonder if someone is guarding it, or if it is simply not an entrance likely to share its secrets with everyone. Either way it would be interesting to find such an architectural objet to illustrate the metaphor (All great experience....), for metaphor, as Grudin maintains, 'evokes both conscious and subconscious responses and produces, more fully than do logic or common sense, an awareness of the implicit connectedness of things' (2).
