Probably ev­ery home carries with itself a meta­physics, a metaphysics of the guest. If we are to follow Pomian, this guest represents the value of the home, not necessarily the price. The guest is not linked to real estate, but to the inventory or the arrangement. A cynic would naturally spoil the guest towel, ruin the elaborate floral arrangement at the round table, and enter through the front door, following Oscar Wilde’s definition of a cynic, as one “who knows the price of ev­erything, but the value of nothing”.