Read it just now. Yea, harrowing.
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.
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.
I kid i kid. I agree.
Great great story. One of my favorite short stories of all time.
What happened to the TV series? probably dead right?, I google but I can find only the initial announcement.