logistics of the doorway? help please!

**vinividivicci** · November 4th, 2009

ps. If my last post was unsatisfactory for you, thymeoperator, I like to think of the doors kind of like worm holes.

no one really knows what they are, where they go, when they go ect, ect, but maybe someday humans can harness wormholes enough for transportation to other universes or even time travel.

Furthermore, since we don't know, we would most definitely use the buddy system

**Bryan James** · November 4th, 2009

No one can walk through the same door twice.

(That's pretty good, if you think about it! Sure, I stole it from Wolfe.)

**thymeoperator** · November 5th, 2009

thanks for that but no it didn't answer my conundrum there - i have no problem accepting doors leading to other worlds, etc. but there are certain laws even within pure fantasy and i couldn't get my head around the way those doors actually operated, because one minute they seemed to require one thing, and the next it seemed a contradiction.

**OhhDiscordia** · November 5th, 2009

I saw the doors as gateways not only into the "whens" of the Three, but into their lives. Obviously in order for Roland to realize exactly who/what they are, HEROIN, Lady of the Shadows, the Pusher, he must be able to reach inside their minds, to touch their minds, to see them for what they truly are. Also, he has to help them, save them too, when they cannot save themselves, think the airplane incident, or detta in the store, where if he hadn't have been able to control their minds and actions, he wouldn't have been able to draw them in the end. I think it was all part of his drawing of the three. I'd suggest going back and reading it again, the Drawing of the Three to me is pretty darn crucial in many way. Just think of Eddie's situation in particular. It isn't until we get to Balthazar's that Roland really has a good opportunity to enter the world. Other than the bathroom in the plane, it's the only time eddie is alone, sure Jack's there but, we know how that goes. Plus, they are magic doors, not those of the Old People, which allows them to do a lot more than just be doors to other whens/wheres amirite?

**Lencho_of_the_Apes** · November 5th, 2009

Originally Posted by Bryan James

No one can walk through the same door twice.

(That's pretty good, if you think about it! Sure, I stole it from Wolfe.)

And Wolfe (right here and now!) stole it from Heraclitus... But, hey, by the way, speaking of Wolfe, has anybody in here ever mentioned the "... a stone... a leaf... a door..." passages in Look Homeward, Angel ?

We all float down here.

**thymeoperator** · November 6th, 2009

...i just meant, how come sometimes they were able to go through the doorway together and other times it wasn't possible?

**vinividivicci** · November 6th, 2009

oh, I see

I kinda thought the doorways were between dimensions or parallel versions of the world and they existed differently in different times and places, so sometimes they had to go together, and sometimes separately depending on where they started and where they wanted to go

Is there a way to ask Mr. King directly? That's probably the only way to know for sure

**91rewoT** · December 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by rose key

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:

Yup, that's the way I look at it too!

**CarGuy#19** · May 12th, 2010

I believe that if Eddie had gone through the door by himself, it would have slammed shut and the Drawing of The Three would have been incomplete, thus putting the tower, beams and all existence in greater jeopardy than it was already.