Courage to stay awake

[Denise Marsden]

I wonder how many of us would have the desire and the courage to stay awake in the jaunt. Part of me thinks it would be an amazing thing to get the answers to the questions that torment the philosophers of the ages. Would it be worth risking your sanity??????? What about you????

[sam peebles]

Nah, I don't have the desire, and I'm not sure it's courage to stay awake and look. It's like when they opened the ark in Indian Jones to look at God and their faces melted--some things humans just aren't suppose to know or see. At the very least, such immense knowledge would take all the fun out of life, and at the worse, you find out eternity is longer than you think.

[Dances_in_Underwear]

I guess it depends on how long it takes in there.

[Alan Pangborn]

Good answer - I bet being awake and alone without a good SK book for an eternity-length travel to Mars would be pretty rough...

[GNTLGNT]

I think I'd keep my eyes well shut. In addition to anything King might have conceived in "there", let us not forget his homages to H.P. Lovecraft. See one of those on The Jaunt and a visit from a Jehovah's Witness would seem like a fiesta. Ole'

[Seb Shaw]

No something's are better off not knowing, why ruin the magic of something... just kep your eyes closed and enjoy the ride

[blunthead]

The Jaunt will always be one of my all-time favorite stories. sK caught the hideousness of the concept of being trapped alone with nothing to do for billions of years perfectly. It is a truly scary read for me. After the first, say year, a person will have thought about everything he/she is capable of thinking about many times over, and then would have only nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine years left; and that's if stuck for only a billion years! But worse than that, icing on the cake, insult to injury, he/she would not know when, or if, it would ever end.

No human mind can conceive of or stand up to such a monstrous fate. It's wonderful!

[Pucker]

Well . . . it was curiosity that loosed evil upon the world (if you happen to believe that particular mythology), and I'm not sure that courage is exactly the correct word to describe what it would take to peek behind the curtain of eternity. One thing I can vouch for from personal experience (and this is very popular in the mythologies, too) is that the surest way to entice somebody to do something is to forbid it.