just watched emesis blue and i keep seeing people talk about the shining references (the ghost bar and the blood elevator), but the one thing i haven’t seen anyone mention yet is that there are recurring lines from stephen king’s short story “The Jaunt”. the story is told by a father who is explaining to his family the history of the “jaunt”, or teleportation machine, that’s about to bring them to mars (iirc). we learn that the man who invented it managed to get it to work for objects, but the mice he sent through always died, despite showing no physical problems. eventually it’s tested on a death row inmate who comes out the other side, utters the words “it’s eternity in there,” and then dies. so eventually they figure out that you need to be knocked out to go through, otherwise your consciousness experiences eternity in the time (something like .00000006 of a second) it takes your physical body to go through. near the end, the father’s story is interrupted by the jaunt technicians who are coming around to put on the gas masks that’ll put them to sleep for the journey. when the father wakes up on the other side, however, he finds that his eight-year-old son Ricky, curious about what it’d be like to be awake during, held his breath when the gas was administered and went through awake. he’s gone completely insane, gouging out his eyes and screaming “It’s longer than you think, Dad! Longer than you think!” obviously this story left an impression on me, so i think it’s a really cool detail that both the lines “it’s eternity in there” and “longer than you think” are repeated at least twice in the movie. plus, one of the failed testers who went through the Respawn was shown to have gouged out eyes. a cool homage to another Unnatural Sci-Fi-Horror Box That Fucks You Up Real Bad!

A Group Show Celebrates Ten Years of The Jaunt, the Travel Project Sending Artists Around the World

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) "The series swings wildly between cosmic dread and comedy, from the insignificance of the Earth's destruction to the chaotic results of the Infinite Improbability Drive to the very notion of the Total Perspective Vortex, the story hammers home again and again the infinitesimal nature of our existence in the vastness of the universe."

The Jaunt (Stephen King) “As a family prepares to be "Jaunted" to Mars in the 24th century, the father entertains his two children by recounting the curious tale of the discovery and history of this crude form of teleportation. He explains how the scientist who serendipitously discovered it quickly learned that it had a disturbing, inexplicable effect on the mice he "sent through"—eventually concluding that they could only survive the "Jaunt effect" while unconscious. That, the father explains, is why all people must undergo general anaesthesia before using the Jaunt.

The father spares his children the gruesome semi-apocryphal account of the first human to be Jaunted awake, a condemned murderer offered a full pardon for agreeing to the experiment. The man "came through" and immediately suffered a massive heart attack, living just long enough to utter a single cryptic phrase:

It's eternity in there…

The father also doesn't mention that since that time, roughly thirty people have, voluntarily or otherwise, jaunted while conscious; they either died instantly or emerged insane. One woman was even shoved alive into eternal limbo by her murderous husband, stuck between two jaunt portals. The man was convicted of murder; though his attorneys attempted to argue that he was not guilty on the grounds that his wife was not technically dead, the implications of the same argument served to secure and hasten his execution.

After the father finishes his story, the family is subjected to the sleeping gas and Jaunted to Mars. When the father wakes, he finds that his inquisitive son held his breath in order to experience the Jaunt while conscious…Hair white with shock, corneas yellowed with age, clawing out his own eyes, the boy reveals the terrible nature of the Jaunt: "Longer than you think, Dad! It's longer than you think!"

Short Story Tournament

THE JAUNT by Stephen King (1981) (link) - tw: death

"Longer than you think!"

THE LANDLADY by Roald Dahl (1959) (link) - tw: death

"Excuse my asking, but haven’t there been any other guests here except them in the last two or three years?” Holding her teacup high in one hand, inclining her head slightly to the left, she looked up at him out of the corners of her eyes and gave him another gentle little smile. “No, my dear,” she said. “Only you.”

That one stephen king story about teleportation is really scary but every time I'm on an airport I think "yeah I'd be willing to risk it"

Andrew Schoultz

Around the World in 10 Years, One Jaunt at a Time

From the start, The Jaunt was a brilliant idea: stoke inspiration and curiosity by sending an artist to the destination of their choice, and, in turn, create a print that becomes experiential as a unique and dynamic opportunity for collectors.

Cleon Peterson

Jean Jullien

Troy Lovegates

https://gist.github.com/Schemetrical/6184daf83843bcab9402

fuck it! Stephen King short story link!

Here’s my personal recommendation of a YouTube video to check out:

Title: The jaunt (1982) Author: Stephen King Vote: 7.5/10 A story that I found terrifying. At first it resembles the story of a scientific experiment, interesting but harmless and it seems that the conclusion has come when the teleportation happens but suddenly there is a horrible surprise. Without any warning, the drama caused by a boy who was too hard to follow the safety rules occurs. King has a certain talent for staging horrendous situations out of normal behavior. Anyone would expect that a lively child might not follow the rules but the consequences are something out of proportion.

I love how Liam likes to bring up the sci-fi horror short story "The Jaunt" when he can hahah

I think here in 4SD E6 is the 3rd time he's referenced it (that I've watched), the other times was once in Talks Machina and the other during an episode in Campaign 2. The Talks Machina one was the first that led me to discovering and reading it, thankful to Mr. Oberon for that.

My favorite thing is when there is a mysterious hole

CW Disturbing Imagery and Uncanny Four

Basically an AU that's somewhat canon compliant where the reason why BFB Four is so pale and why he's insane is because he got sent through the algebralien equivalent of The Long Jaunt. Then he ends up regressing in order to avoid the memories of the Jaunt, which is why he seems childish despite being an adult man.

Nightfall (Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg) "From TV Tropes: Lagash's six suns means an Endless Daytime, except for once every 2,049 years, when five suns set and the only sun left in the hemisphere is eclipsed by the moon. The scientists are trying to prepare civilization and themselves for the upcoming nightfall, but when it does occur, no-one is prepared for the thirty thousand stars that suddenly appear in the night sky. This leads to the far more devastating revelation how tiny and insignificant they are by comparison." "Aton, somewhere, was crying, whimpering horribly like a terribly frightened child. 'Stars — all the Stars — we didn't know at all. We didn't know anything. We thought six stars in a universe is something the Stars didn't notice is Darkness forever and ever and ever and the walls are breaking in and we didn't know we couldn't know and anything —'"

The Jaunt (Stephen King) “As a family prepares to be "Jaunted" to Mars in the 24th century, the father entertains his two children by recounting the curious tale of the discovery and history of this crude form of teleportation. He explains how the scientist who serendipitously discovered it quickly learned that it had a disturbing, inexplicable effect on the mice he "sent through"—eventually concluding that they could only survive the "Jaunt effect" while unconscious. That, the father explains, is why all people must undergo general anaesthesia before using the Jaunt.

The father spares his children the gruesome semi-apocryphal account of the first human to be Jaunted awake, a condemned murderer offered a full pardon for agreeing to the experiment. The man "came through" and immediately suffered a massive heart attack, living just long enough to utter a single cryptic phrase:

It's eternity in there…

The father also doesn't mention that since that time, roughly thirty people have, voluntarily or otherwise, jaunted while conscious; they either died instantly or emerged insane. One woman was even shoved alive into eternal limbo by her murderous husband, stuck between two jaunt portals. The man was convicted of murder; though his attorneys attempted to argue that he was not guilty on the grounds that his wife was not technically dead, the implications of the same argument served to secure and hasten his execution.

After the father finishes his story, the family is subjected to the sleeping gas and Jaunted to Mars. When the father wakes, he finds that his inquisitive son held his breath in order to experience the Jaunt while conscious…Hair white with shock, corneas yellowed with age, clawing out his own eyes, the boy reveals the terrible nature of the Jaunt: "Longer than you think, Dad! It's longer than you think!"

Underland (Robert MacFarlane) "A series of essays on "deep time" - that is, viewing the world over timeframes of billions of years, rather than the shorter timeframes we live within & understand. It is essentially the vastness of time. This concept stretches eons into the past and future and is very daunting to read about. The essays all revolve around things underground and often focus on how they're so much larger than us, existing far before us and stretching far beyond.

Also there's a chapter where the author talks about a calving glacier he saw surge upwards hundreds of feet from the sea, unbelievably huge. He recounts how the ice at its base hadn't seen sunlight in eons, and had never even been seen by human eyes, it was so ancient - it then sank underwater again, to once more be hidden. And if that doesn't sound like the origin of a vast avatar idk what does"

Tower Junkies - 078 - Short Stories - The Jaunt & Survivor Type (Skeleton Crew) - Guest: Kim C (The Year of Underrated Stephen King)

In the latest episode of Tower Junkies, we welcome the ever delightful Kim C from The Year of Underrated Stephen King podcast to chat about her progress in The Dark Tower, and two stellar short stories from Skeleton Crew!

078 – Short Stories – The Jaunt & Survivor Type (Skeleton Crew) – Guest: Kim C (The Year of Underrated Stephen King) – Tower Junkies – The Dark Tower and Stephen King Podcast In this episode, Tiny and I welcome our friend Kim C (The Year of Underrated Stephen King) back to the show to discuss her progress on her Dark Tower journey and review two killer short stories from Skeleton Crew: The…

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