Tuesday, May 02, 2006
fount of nightmares
Rod Serling quote, from Marc Scott Zicree's excellent Twilight Zone Companion:
"In making a judgement, or any analysis or inventory," [Serling] once said, "of what are the degrees of emotional reaction and indeed types of emotional reaction, I think there is a universality of reaction to certain given prods. Now, our reaction to fear of a mugging, I think, is relatively universal. There are maybe eight different types of reactions, but I think you could almost categorize them and put them in a textbook.
"The worst fear of all is the fear of the unknown working on you, which you cannot share with others. To me, that's the most nightmarish of the stimuli."