It's amazing what you learn about your own country when you travel abroad or, as I've said before, read foreign publications. The September 12th edition of the London Spectator features a review of Rob Chapman's Psychedelia and Other Colours which reveals that the Doors took their name from Aldous Huxley's book about his drug experimentation, The Doors of Perception. In an amusing aside the reviewer, Ian Thompson, uses an adjective to describe the band that I'd never heard applied to it before: "humourless."
