Current Events > Who here has read "The Jaunt" by Stephen King? *spoilers, obviously*

(+) Yeah! (+)

I've known the story for ages, but I just got around to actually reading it.

It's pretty fucked up, imo. I don't think I'd want to live in a world with the Jaunt myself, because I would definitely be like the kid and be seriously tempted to go through without the gas. I have a very morbid kind of curiosity. Even knowing what it's done to everyone else who's gone through awake, I'd still have a hard time not trying it. But the idea of spending eternity in a field of white with nothing but my own thoughts? It's simultaneously intriguing and terrifying. >_>
---

That's the one where they invent teleportation technology, but you have to be anesthetized before going through because testing it on a death row inmate drove him insane?
---

This is the second time I've seen that story brought up on CE in the last month or so. Interesting.

The Long Walk is my favorite Stephen King work.
---

pegusus123456 posted...

That's the one where they invent teleportation technology, but you have to be anesthetized before going through because testing it on a death row inmate drove him insane?

Yeah.

Basically teleportation exists, and it's physically instantaneous. But a conscious mind experiences billions of years worth of time in what is essentially an all-white field without even so much as your own body. Just thoughts and zero sensory input for eons upon eons.
---

Yeah, it's a fun story, but most of his short stories are. The ones in that collection are some of my favorite though.
---