Stuart has warned Jack about the dangers of 'cabin fever', a term first used with it's current meaning in 1918. Before that it refered to those suffering from TYPHUS. The name comes from the Greek typhos meaning smoky or hazy, describing the state of mind of those affected with the condition. Symptoms include photophobia, or sensitivity to light. In later scenes Hallaronn will warn Danny the same way about Room 237, so both father and son will receive warnings from the hotel. Lens flare at the bottom of the screen over Jack's shoe.

ULLMAN Let's see, where were we? Yes. I was about to explain that eh... our season here runs from oh May 15th to October 30th and then we close down completely until the following May.
JACK Do you mind if I ask why you do that? It seems to me that the skiing up here would be fantastic.
ULLMAN Oh, it sure would be but the problem is the enormous cost it would be to keep the road to the Sidewinder open. It's a... It's a 25 mile stretch of road - gets an average of 20 feet of snow during the winter, and there's just no way to make it economically feasible to keep it clear. When the place was built in 1907, there was very little interest in winter sports, and this site was chosen for its seclusion and scenic beauty. JACK Well, it's certainly got plenty of that.
ULLMAN That's right. And did they give you any idea in Denver about what the job entails?
JACK Only in a very general way.
ULLMAN Well... the winters can be fantastically cruel, and the basic idea is to...to cope with the very costly damage and depreciation which can occur. And this consists mainly of running the boiler, heating different parts of the hotel on a daily rotating basis, repairing damage as it occurs and doing repairs, so that the elements can't get a foothold.
JACK Well, that sounds fine to me.
ULLMAN Physically, it's not a very demanding job. The only thing that can get a bit trying up here during the winter is eh... the tremendous sense of isolation.
JACK Well, that just happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. I'm eh... I'm outlining a new writing project, and eh...five months of peace is just what I want.
ULLMAN That's very good Jack, because eh... for some people eh solitude and isolation... can of itself be a problem.
JACK Not for me. ULLMAN How about your wife and son? How do you think they'll take to it?
JACK They'll love it.
ULLMAN Great...well, before I turn you over to Bill, there is one other thing I think we should talk about. I don't want to sound melodramatic, but it is something that's...been known to give a few people second thoughts about the job.
JACK I'm intrigued.
ULLMAN I don't suppose they eh told you anything in Denver about the tragedy we had up here during the winter of 1970?
JACK I don't believe they did.
ULLMAN Well, my predecessor in this job hired a man named Charles Grady, as the winter caretaker. He came up here with his wife and two little girls of about eight or ten. And he had a good employment record, good references and from what I've been told, I mean, he seemed like a completely normal individual. But at some point during the winter, he must have suffered some kind of a complete mental breakdown. He ran amok and eh... killed his family with an axe, stacked them neatly in one of the rooms in the West Wing, and then he um... then he put eh both barrels of his shotgun in his mouth. The police eh... they thought that it was what the old-timers used to call cabin-fever, a kind of claustrophobic reaction which can occur when people are shut in together over long periods of time.
JACK Well, that is eh quite a story.
ULLMAN Yes, it is. Oh, it's still hard for me to believe that it actually happened here, but it did and eh... I think you can appreciate why I wanted to tell you about it.
JACK Ah, I certainly can, and eh... I also understand why your people in Denver left it for you to tell me.
ULLMAN Well, obviously some people can be put off by the idea of staying alone in a place where something like that actually happened.
JACK Well, you can rest assured Mr. Ullman, that's not going to happen with me, and eg as far as my wife is concerned, I am sure she'll be absolutely fascinated when I tell her about it. She's a confirmed ghost story and horror film addict.