The RuinsSet among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical Elect," The Ruins is a black eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself. Like all fairy tales, it turns on subjectionthe increasingly comic and catastrophic subjection of "our hero, Tom," a high minded and half starved shoeshine boy. Tom shifts