Broken_In_Time
Oh thank you and yes the way he can just sut off the ending of a story but he dose it in a way that you really WANT to think about it not just brush it off and think of it as another one of your stores that you read everyday and you do think of it.
He is such a wonderful writer I really would have liked to talk to him .
Your mentioning his sudden ending has made me wonder.
Do you notiuce that Stephen King often does the same thing? The attention is all on th =e plot conflict, with very little on the resolution. My favorite of his is Needful Things, and it's architecture, its design, is very much like a Poe novel, with a problem which presents itself fairly innocently but with intimations of what is to come, and then turns loike a screw deeper and deeper until you can barely stand it.
And then in one short chapter (or for Poe, even two paragraphs) it is all concluded!
I know that King says he gets all his best ideas from his own nightmares.
I wonder if the same is true of Poe?
And then I wonder whether the short conclusions are because they are the parts about which the writers are most uncertain?
Suppose most of what they see and feel is the nightmare itself? In their mind it is ongoing, always present.
Then the "happy ending" would be a concession to th audience, to make the work publishable, but nothing more.
For them the true reality would be in the terror itself.
And Broken-in-Time. I've enjoyed our convos, thank you.
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