Madame Psychosis’s show; the HmH (pp. 188–189)

The enclosure phobia built into the house, and its central paradox. Avril's "issues of enclosure" mean the Headmaster's House has "no interior doors between rooms, and not even much in the way of walls" — living and dining rooms divided only by "a vast multileveled tangle of house-plants," her "Green Babies," under UV lamps, with C.T.'s mounted Brazilian machete on the wall no longer quite a joke. The agoraphobe who never leaves the grounds (010, 013) has also unwalled the inside, so the whole house is one continuous unclosable space. It is the same control-need seen from another face: a woman who cannot bear closed rooms builds a home with nothing that closes, and calls the barrier she'll tolerate a garden. The family lives without interior privacy by maternal decree, every room open onto every other, the phobia legislating the floor plan.