The Jacket (The Star-Rover)

er passively, as, undoubtedly, all men have learned who have passed through the post-graduate courses of strait-jacketing. Oh, it is no e

spirit which I so acquired that enabled me easi

ns?" Ed Morrell rap

ad ever been before. So weak was I that though my whole body was one mass

pped back. "They will get me i

with him. You've got to be pretty weak first, before you try it. If you try it when you are strong, you make a failure of it, and then that queers you for ever after. I made the mistake of telling Jake the trick when he was

ped back, "Don't swallow it, Da

ll me," I rap

you need it, and I am going to tell you. It's up to you. If you ha

is it?" I ra

e jacket-how your arm or your leg goes to sleep. Now you can't help that, but you can take it for the idea and improve on it. Don't

g you must think and believe is that your body is one thing and your spirit is another thing. You are you, and your body is something else that don't amount to shucks.

will die. That is the big job-to start the dying. Once you've got the first toe dead, the rest is easy, for you don't have to do any more b

d don't make you in the least bit dead. By-and-by your legs are dead to the knees, and then to the thighs, and you are just the same as you

hat happens

Stone walls and iron doors are to hold bodies in. They can't hold the spirit in. You see, you have proved it. You are spirit outside of your body. Y

nheimer rapped his laug

He can't believe. That one time he tried it he was t

ad, and dead men stay de

een dead three tim

l us about it," O

ain. I mean that my body would be dead for keeps. And I didn't want it to be dead. I didn't want to give Captain Jamie and the rest that satisfaction. But I tell you, Darrell, if you can turn the trick you can laugh at the Warden. Once you make your body die that way it don't matter whether they k

m giving you the

come back?" Opp

answered. "Unless, maybe, it will be on us for stickin

er, threatened Morrell and Oppenheimer with a report next morning that would mean the

as I have explained, by mechanical self-hypnosis I had sought to penetrate back through time to my previous selves. That I had partly

ousness went first of all. By his method, consciousness persisted last of all, and, when the body was quite gone, passed into

rell said he had done three times. Perhaps this faith that so easily possessed me was due to my extreme debility. Perhaps I was not strong enough to be scept