# Has anybody else read Stephen King's short story 'The Jaunt.' Wow **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [January 17, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-else-read-stephen-kings-short-story-the-jaunt-wow/846574 "2020-01-17T17:17:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-else-read-stephen-kings-short-story-the-jaunt-wow/846574/101 "2022-11-04T11:13:52Z")
Read it just now. Yea, harrowing. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-else-read-stephen-kings-short-story-the-jaunt-wow/846574/102 "2022-11-08T19:23:58Z")
That’s the beauty and horror of the story; King leaves what happened intentionally unexplained, so that your mind fills in the blanks, and chances are what you’ll fill in will be worse for _you_ than anything the author would have come up with. And FTR, I can probably tell you every teacher I’ve had from elementary through high school. Oddly, it’s the college professors who tend to be nameless- either absolutely non-memorable, or I remember what they looked and acted like without remembering their names. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-else-read-stephen-kings-short-story-the-jaunt-wow/846574/103 "2022-11-09T14:12:56Z")
I just read it. The idea seems to be a play on the old fashioned dualism of Descartes. It’s not so much the jaunt process itself, or anything that’s “in there” like in that one Star Trek episode where they saw stuff in the transporter stream. The impression I got is that there is a mind or soul that doesn’t directly correspond to the brain, and that this is what the jaunt computer was unable to deal with. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-else-read-stephen-kings-short-story-the-jaunt-wow/846574/104 "2022-11-09T14:29:09Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0csWC99OrXI/maxresdefault.jpg "Rick and Morty Ooh La La Someone's Going To Get Laid In College") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0csWC99OrXI) I kid i kid. I agree. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-else-read-stephen-kings-short-story-the-jaunt-wow/846574/105 "2022-11-17T16:28:34Z")
Great great story. One of my favorite short stories of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-else-read-stephen-kings-short-story-the-jaunt-wow/846574/106 "2022-11-17T17:11:53Z")
What happened to the TV series? probably dead right?, I google but I can find only the initial announcement. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-else-read-stephen-kings-short-story-the-jaunt-wow/846574.md?page=5)