I see the enclosure as metaphoric. The expression does bring to mind something literal, like the rural compound my brothers want to establish, a fort or stronghold of some kind--or, more pacifically, the series of courtyards making up a classic Chinese upper-class house. (OK, I've neglected a previous application, having chistened an interesting--but rather fictitious--valley "Charax.") We may eventually be able to call some property "Charax," but for now I'm starting with the little impenetrable enclosure of my mind, which despite its size contains the entire world as I experience it.

"And so it begins."

A word, first, about a word ("In the beginning was the Word..."): Charax. I first recall encountering it at about age ten as a place name in a novel set on Mars. In my teens I believe I ran across it in the Apocrypha. Only quite recently did I (incidentally) see "charax" in print with a definition attached; evidently it's a Greek term meaning "enclosure". Thus did an attractive-looking word acquire a use for this would-be writer. So these ramblings ostensibly are about an enclosed area--but what?