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diff --git a/29790.txt b/29790.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3bdb786 --- /dev/null +++ b/29790.txt @@ -0,0 +1,641 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pleasant Journey, by Richard F. Thieme + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Pleasant Journey + +Author: Richard F. Thieme + +Illustrator: George Schelling + +Release Date: August 25, 2009 [EBook #29790] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PLEASANT JOURNEY *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + + +PLEASANT JOURNEY + + It's nice to go on a pleasant journey. + There is, however, a very difficult question concerning + the other half of the ticket ... + +BY RICHARD F. THIEME + +Illustrated by George Schelling + + +"What do you call it?" the buyer asked Jenkins. + +"I named it 'Journey Home' but you can think up a better name for it if +you want. I'll guarantee that it sells, though. There's nothing like it +on any midway." + +"I'd like to try it out first, of course," Allenby said. "Star-Time uses +only the very best, you know." + +"Yes, I know," Jenkins said. He had heard the line before, from almost +every carnival buyer to whom he had sold. He did not do much business +with the carnivals; there weren't enough to keep him busy with large or +worthwhile rides and features. The amusement parks of the big cities +were usually the best markets. + +Allenby warily eyed the entrance, a room fashioned from a side-show +booth. A rough red curtain concealed the inside. Over the doorway, in +crude dark blue paint, was lettered, "Journey Home." Behind the doorway +was a large barnlike structure, newly painted white, where Jenkins did +his planning, his building, and his finishing. When he sold a new ride +it was either transported from inside the building through the large, +pull-away doors in back or taken apart piece by piece and shipped to the +park or carny that bought it. + +"Six thousand's a lot of money," the buyer said. + +"Just try it," Jenkins told him. + +The buyer shrugged. "O.K.," he said. "Let's go in." They walked through +the red curtain. Inside the booth-entrance was a soft-cushioned +easy-chair, also red, secured firmly in place. It was a piece of salvage +from a two-engine commercial airplane. A helmet looking like a Flash +Gordon accessory-hair drier combination was set over it. Jenkins flipped +a switch and the room became bright with light. "I thought you said this +wasn't a thrill ride," Allenby said, looking at the helmetlike structure +ominously hanging over the chair. + +"It isn't," Jenkins said, smiling. "Sit down." He strapped the buyer +into place in the chair. + +"Hey, wait a minute," Allenby protested. "Why the straps?" + +"Leave everything to me and don't worry," Jenkins said, fitting the +headgear into place over the buyer's head. The back of it fitted easily +over the entire rear of the skull, down to his neck. The front came just +below the eyes. After turning the light off, Jenkins pulled the curtain +closed. It was completely black inside. + +"Have a nice trip," Jenkins said, pulling a switch on the wall and +pushing a button on the back of the chair at the same time. + +Currents shifted and repatterned themselves inside the helmet and were +fed into Allenby at the base of his skull, at the medulla. The currents +of alternating ions mixed with the currents of his varied and random +brain waves, and the impulses of one became the impulses of the other. +Allenby jerked once with the initial shock and was then still, his mind +and body fused with the pulsating currents of the chair. + +Suddenly, Roger Allenby was almost blinded by bright, naked light. +Allenby's first impression was one of disappointment at the failure of +the device. Jenkins was reliable, usually, and hadn't come up with a +fluke yet. + +Allenby got out of the chair and called for Jenkins, holding on to the +arm of the chair to keep his bearings. "Hey! Where are you? Jenkins!" He +tried to look around him but the bright, intense light revealed nothing. +He swore to himself, extending his arms in front of him for something to +grasp. As he groped for a solid, the light became more subdued and +shifted from white into a light, pleasant blue. + + * * * * * + +Shapes and forms rearranged themselves in front of him and gradually +became distinguishable. He was in a city, or on top of a city. A +panoramic view was before him and he saw the creations of human beings, +obviously, but a culture far removed from his. A slight path of white +began at his feet and expanded as it fell slightly, ramplike, over and +into the city. The buildings were whiter than the gate of false dreams +that Penelope sung of and the streets and avenues were blue, not gray. +The people wore white and milled about in the streets below him. They +shouted as one; their voices were not cries but songs and they sang his +name. + +He started walking on the white strip. It was flexible and supported his +weight easily. Then he was running, finding his breath coming in sharp +gasps and he was among the crowds. They smiled at him as he passed by +and held out their hands to him. Their faces shone with a brilliance of +awareness and he knew that they loved him. Troubled, frightened, he kept +running, blindly, and, abruptly, there were no people, no buildings. + +He was walking now, at the left side of a modern super-highway, against +the traffic. Autos sped by him, too quickly for him to determine the +year of model. Across the divider the traffic was heavier, autos +speeding crazily ahead in the direction he was walking; none stopped. He +halted for a moment and looked around him. There was nothing on the +sides of the road: no people, no fields, no farms, no cities, no +blackness. There was nothing. But far ahead there was green etched +around the horizon as the road dipped and the cars sped over it. He +walked more quickly, catching his breath, and came closer and closer to +the green. + +Allenby stopped momentarily and turned around, looking at the highway +that was behind him. It was gone. Only bleak, black and gray hills of +rock and rubble were there, no cars, no life. He shuddered and continued +on toward the end of the highway. The green blended in with the blue of +the sky now. Closer he came, until just over the next rise in the road +the green was bright. Not knowing or caring why, he was filled with +expectation and he ran again and was in the meadow. + +All around him were the greens of the grasses and leaves and the yellows +and blues of the field flowers. It was warm, a spring day, with none of +the discomfort of summer heat. Jubilant, Roger spun around in circles, +inhaling the fragrance of the field, listening to the hum of insect life +stirring back to awareness after a season of inactivity. Then he was +running and tumbling, barefoot, his shirt open, feeling the soft grass +give way underfoot and the soil was good and rich beneath him. + +He saw a stream ahead, with clear water melodiously flowing by him. He +went to it and drank, the cold, good water quenching all his thirst, +clearing all the stickiness of his throat and mind. He dashed the water +on his face and was happy and felt the coolness of it as the breeze +picked up and swept his hair over his forehead. With a shake of his head +he tossed it back in place and ran again, feeling the air rush into his +lungs with coolness and vibrance unknown since adolescence. No nicotine +spasms choked him and the air was refreshing. + +Then up the hill he sped, pushing hard, as the marigolds and dandelions +parted before him. At the top he stopped and looked and smiled +ecstatically as he saw the green rolling land and the stream, curving +around from behind the house, his house, the oaks forming a secret lair +behind it, and he felt the youth of the world in his lungs and under his +feet. He heard the voice calling from that house, his house, calling him +to Saturday lunch. + +"I'm coming!" he cried happily and was tumbling down the hill, rolling +over and over, the hill and ground and sky blending blues and greens and +nothing had perspective. The world was spinning and everything was black +again. He shook his head to clear the dizziness. + + * * * * * + +"Well?" Jenkins said. "How was it?" + +Allenby looked up at him as Jenkins swung the helmet back and unhooked +the seatbelt. He squinted as Jenkins flipped the light switch and the +brightness hit him. + +His surroundings became distinguishable again very slowly and he knew he +was back in the room. "Where was I?" he asked. + +Jenkins shrugged. "I don't know. It was all yours. You went wherever you +wanted to go, wherever home is." Jenkins smiled down at him. "Did you +visit more than one place?" he asked. The buyer nodded. "I thought so. +It seems that a person tries a few before finally deciding where to go." + +The buyer stood up and stretched. "Could I please see the barn?" he +asked, meaning the huge workshop where Jenkins did the construction +work. + +"Sure," Jenkins said and opened the door opposite the red curtain into +the workshop. It was empty. + +"You mean it was all up here? I didn't move at all?" He tapped his +cranium with his index finger. + +"That's right," Jenkins said anxiously. "Do you want it or not?" + +Allenby stood looking into the empty room. "Yes ... yes, of course," he +said. "How long did the whole thing last?" + +"About ten seconds," Jenkins said, looking at his watch. "It seems much +longer to the traveler. I'm not sure, but I think the imagined time +varies with each person. It's always around ten seconds of actual time, +though, so you can make a lot of money on it, even if you only have one +machine." + +"Money?" Allenby said. "Money, yes, of course." He took a checkbook from +his inside pocket and hurriedly wrote a check for six thousand dollars. +"When can we have it delivered?" he asked. + +"You want it shipped the usual way?" + +"No," Allenby said, staring at the red-cushioned chair. "Send it air +freight. Then bill us for the expense." + +"Whatever you say," Jenkins said, smiling, taking the check. "You'll +have it by the first of the week, probably. I'll put a complete parts +and assembly manual inside the crate." + +"Good, good. But maybe I should test it again, you know. Star-Time can't +really afford to make a mistake as expensive as this." + +"No," Jenkins said quickly. Then, "I'll guarantee it, of course. If it +doesn't work out, I'll give you a full refund. But don't try it again, +today. Don't let anyone have it more than once in one day. Stamp them on +the hand or something when they take the trip." + +"Why?" + +Jenkins looked troubled. "I'm not sure, but people might not want to +come back. Too many times in a row and they might be able to stay +there ... in their minds of course." + +"Of course, of course. Well, it's been a pleasure doing business with +you, Mr. Jenkins. I hope to see you again soon." They walked back to +Allenby's not-very-late model car and shook hands. Allenby drove away. + +On the way back to the hotel, and as he lay for a long time in the +bathtub, letting the warmness drift away from the water, the thought ran +over and over in his mind. They might be able to stay there, Allenby +said to himself. They might be able to stay there. He smiled warmly at a +crack in the plaster as he thought of the first of the week and the +fragrant meadow. + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Analog Science Fact & Fiction_ + November 1963. 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