logistics of the doorway? help please!

**thymeoperator** · August 21st, 2009

btw, warning, spoilers ahead:

the doorway on the beach. i don't understand this. roland says he has to come through into our world separately from eddie. how is that possible? i thought the doorway was actually INTO eddie himself. so how does he come through as his own physical person? then when they leap back through the doorway, they have to hold hands to go through. but why? surely if they both can see it they can go through as separate beings...? i don't even know exactly how to phrase this question, it's got me so confused. any help would be appreciated!

**wally wonder** · August 21st, 2009

just say, 'teacup'. teacup and saucer. it'll help, i'm sure.

**Bryan James** · August 21st, 2009

I just reconcile it like that movie "The Fly" (Jeff Goldblum version). If they teleport together they are spliced together.

If they go through separately, they remain two entities.

(Been a while since I read it though, so take my analysis with a hunk o' salt)

~BJS

**thymeoperator** · August 24th, 2009

except roland says they need to hold hands in order to go through the doorway and come out separately, so...no i was just so confused by that whole thing.

**rose key** · August 24th, 2009

I'm pretty sure that it's because Eddie can't go through the doorway by under his own power. That door was for Roland's use, and in order for Eddie to go through it, he needs to hold Roland's hand. I'm not sure if you've finished reading this book yet, so I'll put the rest in a spoiler:

**thymeoperator** · August 25th, 2009

okay that makes sense, it does...how do they go through into NY again separately though?

**wally wonder** · August 25th, 2009

different door, maybe? one open to all? think that was it, anyway.

**thymeoperator** · August 25th, 2009

no it was the same door - this was all in the section with eddie

**wally wonder** · August 25th, 2009

dunno. wasn't troubled by it. in an infinite universe, anything is possible.

**vinividivicci** · November 4th, 2009

thymeoperator, it sounds like you are a very linear thinker, so I would offer a comparison.

In the 70's, Star Trek used to have these little walkie talkies that folded in half, and they had buttons on their shirts they could press to talk to each other. Back then, no one had cell phones or blue tooth, and none of it made sense either.

Today, we think nothing of people walking down the street talking to seemingly no one via ear piece, or phones with no cords, etc. Try to think of the doors the same way. I don't know exactly how SK intended for them to work, but the point is where the doors take the characters, not the doors themselves.

Maybe one day we'll look back and point and say "hey, Stephen King wrote about a door like that a long time ago!"