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¶1 The Foreword Of Joan Lindsay's Picnic At Hanging Rock, circa 1967, F.W. Cheshire. In Joan Lindsay's Foreword to her text: A Picnic At Hanging Rock, circa 1967, a commentary is provided in reference to the text's basis on historical truth that establishes the narrative as an abduction / murder mystery, rather than a super-natural thriller of completely fantastical origins. That is: the truth is, the disappearances really did occur of Christian, Celtic-origin school girls during the year 1900, 14 February: Saint Valentine's Day, at the Macedon region of Victoria, Australia.
¶2 Joan Lindsay has written: '...all the characters who appear [in the book] are long since dead...'. Because only real people, viz. historical figures, can really die, the characters of the text can be taken as based on real-life persons. To be of the state of death such that the phrase "long since dead" can be applied in the real context that the phrase engenders, is to verily relate the facts of death having occurred to the people who really lived and upon who the text's "characters" have been modelled.
¶3 In such a phrase: "long since dead", there may be the further inference, death was known to have taken the girls at Hanging Rock: the silence or mystery by an ellision of the facts in Joan Lindsay's text is an indication of censorship. If censorship occurred, it further indicates that the facts of the girls' murders were secreted in order to protect the identities of the perpetrators, such that a conspiracy is indicated.
¶4 Disclaimer: © Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, 2021–2024 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. E-mail: CraigSJLacey@gmail.com or ElliottTHMcKenzie@gmail.com.
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