
“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 his friend
and editor, Pascal Covici.