Steinbeck and Dylan In Combination

Steinbeck wrote that there are those who must live in rooms of experience that the rest of us can never enter--perhaps we should quit trying to intrude into these places, and simply learn to guard the door.

Indeed, maybe Dylan put it in best perspective:

I received your letter yesterday,

about the time the doorknob broke;

When you asked how I was doing,

was that some kind of joke?

All these people that you mention,

I know them; they're quite lame.

I had to rearrange their faces

and give them all another name.

But right now, I can't read too good;

don't send me no more letters, no--

Not unless you're mailing them

from Desolation Row.