“In the dark the other night I wrote in my head a whole dialogue
between St. George and the Dragon. Very close relatives those two.
They are eternally tied together – actually two parts of one whole…
So St. George must always kill the dragon and it must be repeated
because if the dragon were finally killed, there would be no
St. George – only a lonely man looking for something to do.”
– John Steinbeck
in a private letter to a friend,
Steinbeck: A Life in Letters