In relation to my forthcoming book, Bursting Worlds Asunder: Doorways in Modernist Fiction, see my article in MIT’s architecture journal Thresholds. “The Paradox of Door-Keeping: Access and Absurdity, Then and Now” was included in No. 50 Before/After: https://direct.mit.edu/thld/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/thld_a_00766/110236/The-Paradox-of-Door-Keeping-Access-and-Absurdity?redirectedFrom=PDF