logistics of the doorway? help please!

[CErikson]

I always understood it that, if they entered separately, Eddie would materialize first and Roland would enter his mind. However, by holding his hands, it is forcing the door to keep him on the outside of Eddie, and to materialize separately.

[CCAL]

Can't help but snicker over that one! Good one GNTLGNT! LMHO! Doesn't Eddie try several times to open the door himself though?? It's been so long since I read it that I can't recall percisely, but it sounds right to me...

[Neil W]

This is one of those things you can overthink if you're not careful. The simple answer is SK made it up, and it made sense to him. Or, "The Doormakers of Midworld had passed to dust millenia ago and, like much which had been and which one day would not be, their Doors no longer worked consistently in the ways they had intended."