Comments on: Out of Fear Can Come a World of Ecstasy & Delight http://www.ejruek.com/EJRuek-author-blog/2007/09/10/out-of-fear-comes-a-world-of-ecstasy-and-delight/ The Grimace and the Giggle Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:20:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: womblin http://www.ejruek.com/EJRuek-author-blog/2007/09/10/out-of-fear-comes-a-world-of-ecstasy-and-delight/comment-page-1/#comment-11 womblin Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:06:40 +0000 http://www.ejruek.com/EJRuek-author-blog/2007/09/10/out-of-fear-comes-a-world-of-ecstasy-and-delight/#comment-11 <em>But what do you mean by “Twilight Zone” situations? I don’t write Twilight Zone situations. At least I don’t think I do. Do I?</em> I suppose I was merely listening to the music in my head. Whenever anything strikes us as 'out there' in ordinary day to day goings on, that theme tune has a habit of making itself heard. To me, a face leering from just beneath the wall plaster would warrant a little of that tune. As far as dangling enigmas, no, you most certainly are not building them. And as you know, I love truths, revelations. This is one reason why I enjoy reading your books. But what do you mean by “Twilight Zone” situations? I don’t write Twilight Zone situations. At least I don’t think I do. Do I?

I suppose I was merely listening to the music in my head. Whenever anything strikes us as ‘out there’ in ordinary day to day goings on, that theme tune has a habit of making itself heard. To me, a face leering from just beneath the wall plaster would warrant a little of that tune.

As far as dangling enigmas, no, you most certainly are not building them. And as you know, I love truths, revelations. This is one reason why I enjoy reading your books.

]]> By: E. J. Ruek http://www.ejruek.com/EJRuek-author-blog/2007/09/10/out-of-fear-comes-a-world-of-ecstasy-and-delight/comment-page-1/#comment-10 E. J. Ruek Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:31:42 +0000 http://www.ejruek.com/EJRuek-author-blog/2007/09/10/out-of-fear-comes-a-world-of-ecstasy-and-delight/#comment-10 My females never simper...unless they're the bad "guys." But what do you mean by "Twilight Zone" situations? I don't write Twilight Zone situations. At least I don't think I do. Do I? (Yes, that's a question.) To me, Twilight Zone situations are the ones where the enigma is never addressed and a resolution doesn't happen. It leaves a dangling enigma. I'm not building dangling enigmas, but completely (I hope) startling the reader with unearthed revelations about reality...right? My females never simper…unless they’re the bad “guys.”

But what do you mean by “Twilight Zone” situations? I don’t write Twilight Zone situations. At least I don’t think I do. Do I?

(Yes, that’s a question.)

To me, Twilight Zone situations are the ones where the enigma is never addressed and a resolution doesn’t happen. It leaves a dangling enigma. I’m not building dangling enigmas, but completely (I hope) startling the reader with unearthed revelations about reality…right?

]]> By: womblin http://www.ejruek.com/EJRuek-author-blog/2007/09/10/out-of-fear-comes-a-world-of-ecstasy-and-delight/comment-page-1/#comment-9 womblin Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:59:23 +0000 http://www.ejruek.com/EJRuek-author-blog/2007/09/10/out-of-fear-comes-a-world-of-ecstasy-and-delight/#comment-9 <em>But what of that little gleam — that one sitting right there — twinkling from within that darkened thicket…or that face leering at you from just beneath the wall plaster? How about those twining appendages slithering toward you, grasping at your feet, intent upon taking you beneath? Beneath to where?</em> This is what keeps me reading, in the main, when stuck into a novel or a short story: the delicious curiosity that had Pandora opening that fateful box. Though I do enjoy the mystery of <em>human</em> relationship entwined with the surreality of such a Twilight Zone type situation. I like to see how characters interact when under duress -- does stress bring them together, or tear them apart? Will they form a long-term relationship (if both survive the plot) or will the next morning find one trying to sidle away from the other before their bodily fluids have even cooled to room temperature? Heh. Most of all I like to bash the he-man and toughen up the simpering female. Lol. But what of that little gleam — that one sitting right there — twinkling from within that darkened thicket…or that face leering at you from just beneath the wall plaster? How about those twining appendages slithering toward you, grasping at your feet, intent upon taking you beneath? Beneath to where?

This is what keeps me reading, in the main, when stuck into a novel or a short story: the delicious curiosity that had Pandora opening that fateful box. Though I do enjoy the mystery of human relationship entwined with the surreality of such a Twilight Zone type situation. I like to see how characters interact when under duress — does stress bring them together, or tear them apart? Will they form a long-term relationship (if both survive the plot) or will the next morning find one trying to sidle away from the other before their bodily fluids have even cooled to room temperature?

Heh.

Most of all I like to bash the he-man and toughen up the simpering female. Lol.

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