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  (this game isn't croquet though the mallets are too short this game is) 
  (WHACK…BOOM! Straight through the wicket。) 
  (OFF WITH HIS HEEEEEAAAAAAAD —) 
  Danny pushed the door open。 It swung smoothly; without a creak。 He was 
standing just outside a large bination bedsitting room; and although the snow 
had not reached up this far  the highest drifts were still a foot below the 
second…floor windows  the room was dark because Daddy had closed all the shutters 
on the western exposure two weeks ago。 
  He stood in the doorway; fumbled to his right; and found the switch plate。 Two 
bulbs in an overhead cut…glass fixture came on。 Danny stepped further in and 
looked around。 The rug was deep and soft; a quiet rose color。 Soothing。 A double 
bed with a white coverlet。 A writing desk 
  (Pray tell me: Why is a raven like a writing desk?) 
  by the large shuttered window。 During the season the Constant Writer 


 
 
  (having a wonderful time; wish you were fear) 
  would have a pretty view of the mountains to describe to the folks back home。 
  He stepped further in。 Nothing here; nothing at all。 Only an empty room; cold 
because Daddy was heating the east wing today。 A bureau。 A closet; its door open 
to reveal a clutch of hotel hangers; the kind you can't steal。 A Gideon Bible on 
an endtable。 To his left was the bathroom door; a full…length mirror on it 
reflecting his own white…faced image。 That door was ajar and —  
  He watched his double nod slowly。 
  Yes; that's where it was; whatever it was。 In there。 In the bathroom。 His 
double walked forward; as if to escape the glass。 It put its hand out; pressed 
it against his own。 Then it fell away at an angle as the bathroom door swung 
open。 He looked in。 
  A long room; old…fashioned; like a Pullman car。 Tiny white hexagonal tiles on 
the floor。 At the far end; a toilet with the lid up。 At the right; a washbasin 
and another mirror above it; the kind that hides a medicine cabinet。 To the 
left; a huge white tub on claw feet; the shower curtain pulled closed。 Danny 
stepped into the bathroom and walked toward the tub dreamily; as if propelled 
from outside himself; as if this whole thing were one of the dreams Tony had 
brought him; that he would perhaps see something nice when he pulled the shower 
curtain back; something Daddy had forgotten or Mommy had lost; something that 
would make them both happy —  
  So he pulled the shower curtain back。 
  The woman in the tub had been dead for a long time。 She was bloated and 
purple; her gas…filled belly rising out of the cold; ice…rimmed water like some 
fleshy island。 Her eyes were fixed on Danny's; glassy and huge; like marbles。 
She was grinning; her purple lips pulled back in a grimace。 Her breasts lolled。 
Her pubic hair floated。 Her hands were frozen on the knurled porcelain sides of 
the tub like crab claws。 
  Danny shrieked。 But the sound never escaped his lips; turning inward and 
inward; it fell down in his darkness like a stone in a well。 He took a single 
blundering step backward; hearing his heels clack on the white hexagonal tiles; 
and at the same moment his urine broke; spilling effortlessly out of him。 
  The woman was sitting up。 
  Still grinning; her huge marble eyes fixed on him; she was sitting up。 Her 
dead palms made squittering noises on the porcelain。 Her breasts swayed like 
ancient cracked punching bags。 There was the minute sound of breaking ice 
shards。 She was not breathing。 She was a corpse; and dead long years。 
  Danny turned and ran。 Bolting through the bathroom door; his eyes starting 
from their sockets; his hair on end like the hair of a hedgehog about to be 
turned into a sacrificial 
  (croquet? or roque?) 
  ball; his mouth open and soundless。 He ran full…tilt into the outside door of 
217; which was now closed。 He began hammering on it; far beyond realizing that 
it was unlocked; and he had only to turn the knob to let himself out。 His mouth 
pealed forth deafening screams that were beyond human auditory range。 He could 
only hammer on the door and hear the dead woman ing for him; bloated belly; 
dry hair; outstretched hands  something that had lain slain in that tub for 
perhaps years; embalmed there in magic。 


 
 
  The door would not open; would not; would not; would not。 
  And then the voice of Dick Hallorann came to him; so sudden and unexpected; so 
calm; that his locked vocal cords opened and he began to cry weakly  not with 
fear but with blessed relief。 
  (I don't think they can hurt you 。。。 they're like pictures in a book 。。。 
close your eyes and they'll be gone。) 
  His eyelids snapped down。 His hands curled into balls。 His shoulders hunched 
with the effort of his concentration: 
  (Nothing there nothing there not there at all NOTHING 
  THERE THERE IS NOTHING!) 
  Time passed。 And he was just beginning to relax; just beginning to realize 
that the door must be unlocked and he could go; when the years…damp; bloated; 
fish…smelling hands closed softly around his throat and he was turned implacably 
around to stare into that dead and purple face。 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
P A R T  F O U R 
 —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —   
 
   Snowbound 
 
 —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —   
 
 
 
 
 
 
   》 
 
 
   DREAMLAND 
 
 
  Knitting made her sleepy。 Today even Bartok would have made her sleepy; and it 
wasn't Bartok on the little phonograph; it was Bach。 Her hands grew slower and 
slower; and at the time her son was making the acquaintance of Room 217's long… 
term resident; Wendy was asleep with her knitting on her lap。 The yarn and 
needles rose in the slow time of her breathing。 Her sleep was deep and she did 
not dream。 
 


 
 
                                       * * * 
 
  Jack Torrance had fallen asleep too; but his sleep was light and uneasy; 
populated by dreams that seemed too vivid to be mere dreams — they were certainly 
more vivid than any dreams he had ever had before。 
  His eyes had begun to get heavy as he leafed through packets of milk bills; a 
hundred to a packet; seemingly tens of thousands all together。 Yet he gave each 
one a cursory glance; afraid that by not being thorough he might miss exactly 
the piece of Overlookiana he needed to make the mystic connection that he was 
sure must be here somewhere。 He felt like a man with a power cord in one hand; 
groping around a dark and unfamiliar room for a socket。 If he could find it he 
would be rewarded with a view of wonders。 
  He had e to grips with Al Shockley's phone call and his request; his 
strange experience in the playground had helped him to do that。 That had been 
too damned close to some kind of breakdown; and he was convinced that it was his 
mind in revolt against Al's high…goddam…handed request that he chuck his book 
project。 It had maybe been a signal that his own sense of self…respect could 
only be pushed so far before disintegrating entirely。 He would write the book。 
If it meant the end of his association with Al Shockley; that would have to be。 
He would write the hotel's biography; write it straight from the shoulder; and 
the introduction would be his hallucination that the topiary animals had moved。 
The title would be uninspired but workable: Strange Resort; The Story of the 
Overlook Hotel。 Straight from the shoulder; yes; but it would not be written 
vindictively; in any effort to get back at Al or Stuart Ullman or George 
Hatfield or his father (miserable; bullying drunk that he had been) or anyone 
else; for that matter。 He would write it because the Overlook had enchanted 
him — could any other explanation be so simple or so true? He would write it for 
the reason he felt that all great literature; fiction and nonfiction; was 
written: truth es out; in the end it always es out。 He would write it 
because he felt he had to。 
  Five hundred gals whole milk。 One hundred gals skim milk。 Pd。 Billed to acc't。 
Three hundred pts orange juice。 Pd。 
  He slipped down further in his chair; still

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