Were You Surprised?

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Falcon in one post.

Once before I wrote about suspense versus shock. The bomb under the card table that blows up and the reader did not know it was there is a shock. the bomb ticking under the table and reader knows it as the activities happen around the table. That is suspense.

I know many readers will say I should have guessed because this is an old technique used by many authors. I just chose to use the Falcon as the suspense and this chapter as the shock.

But then I tried to do that many times with some big subjects and some small. I used Blake's background as a shock because I never alluded to it, Rawlings background was suspense. I teased my reader many times and when I finally got around to revealing it much had been known.

Today is Blake-like. I did not reveal any part of it ahead of time. In fact I wrote this whole story to get to this chapter (well and the very end where I tie up the blake/darcy/elizabeth mess I created).

So what will they chose? Don't understand this question? Read the chapter!

This story has really only been about 3 men Blake, Rawlings and Darcy. Bingley is a plot device and Kent is a B player. All along the story has been about these 3 men - those that stood the most to lose in the coming industrial revolution. The Bingleys and the Kents still had the future shining down on them. but not so for our gentlemen.

I normally would use a symbol about this time so for today I shall use the ocean. The waves are in a constant motion, and they lap upon the solid ground. Well it can only remain solid but for so long as it pulls and pulls the bits of sand away. First it had to soften the land and then it had to take the sand. Only then would a new shape take place. So here we have the solid ground, the aristocracy and the gentry, with the constantly lapping waves pulling the ground away. Like all change, it will take a long time. But there is a point where the change is beginning to take notice and in my story this is it.

So what do our fine gentlemen chose?