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The Secret of Hanging Rock Joan Lindsay'sfinal chapter with an introduclionby Johi Taylor and a commentaryby yrlonn" Rousseau (Q"w,u Introduction 1 The Invisible Foundation Stone Taylor 7 All chsrarters in this book are John entirely .ficlitious, and no rekrence is intended Io ony living person. The CharactersMentioned 1e ANGUS & ROBERTSON PUBLISTTERS Chapter Eighteen Unit 4, L:den Pork, 3l llaterloo Road, North Ryde, NSW, Austrolio 2113, and Lindsay 21 16 Golden Square, London WIR 4BN, Joan United Kingdom This book is t:opyright. A Cornrnentary on Chapter Ei6lhteen Apart front any fair dealing for the purposes oJ privale study, reseorch, Yuonne Rousseau 35 crilitism or feview, as permitted under the Copyrighl Act, na part mal be reproduced by any proce.ss without v'rit len permrssion. Inquiries should be addressed lo the publishers. firsl published in Australia by Angus & Robertson Publishers in 1987 First published in the United Kingdom by .Angus & Robertson UK in 1987 Cop.yright e, John Tatlor and Yvonne Rousseau 1q87, (;hapter l8 of "Picnic at Hanging Rock" by Joan Lindsay :; lohn 'l'a,rittr l9tl/, Conmenlary G) l'vonne Roussesu 1987, "The Invisible F'oundalion Slone" O John Tuylor 1987. Notiondl l-ibror;y of Australia Ca I al o guing-in -publ ica t ion d a I a. Lindsay, Joan, I 896-1984. The seret oJ Ilanging Rock. ISBN 0 207 t5550 X. {. Rttusseau, Yvonne. I[. Lindsoy, loan,1896.1984. P,cni{' ul Hanging Rock. IIL Title. IY. Titk': Pimk ot Hanging Rock. A82-t,.J T.ypeset in I4il6 Bem Exponried by Midland f'ype.wfters Prirtted in ,lustruliu HRN,.;tNc; INlRonucrtot Joan Lindsay'sPicnic at Hanging Rockhas been are so convinced of the reality of the time, read by several million people in English, place and people that we can accept the French, Spanish and Italian, and the film mystery for what it is. Joan Lindsay wrote version seenby tens of millions. with a sharpnessof observation, a shrewdness As a novel its appealcame chiefly from of insight and a humour which carry us to two things: the way it combined mysterious the puzzling conclusion. W'e do not feel and sinister events with a picture of a period cheated, becausesuch a writer doesn't cheat. drawn with loving nostalgia, and the fact that There have been attempts to "explain" the mystery was left unsolved. the unsolved mystery by suggesting that it The central story can be briefly was derived from, or inspired by, the Marabar summarised. A party of schoolgirls goes on Caves incident in E. M. Forster's A Passage a picnic on St Valentine's Day, 1900. Four to India, or an apparently bogus incident of them leave the group to explore the described in a book called The Ghosts of Hanging Rock. One of the schoolmistresses Versailles. There is no evidence that Joan also wanders off. W'hen they do not return Lindsay ever read either book. Her own in time, a searchis organised. The youngest account was that the story "just came to her" girl emerges from the hillside in hysterics, but in stages as she lay awake at night, to be can recall almost nothing. Of the other three written at high speed the next day. girls and the mistressthere is no trace. A week But what came to her did include the later, one of the girls is found on the rock ending, and although we were not cheated, with a few cuts and bruises on her hands and we were misled. face, but her bare feet unmarked and no Joan Lindsay kept silent on the subject memory of where she has been. of the final chapter for the sake of her Such an unlikely plot could never publishers and the film-makers. Flowever, she work except in the hands of a writer of expressed a clear wish that it should be remarkable talent. It is perhaps becausewe published after her death. In the light of this, TnE Sncnet or HnNcrNc Rocx INrRonucrront it seemsabsurd that many people have argued searching through old newspapers and that it should not be published, as though records, hoping to find the "facts". Yvonne they had a better knowledge than the author, Rousseau, in her remarkable scholarly spoof or a right to overrule her. The Murders at Hanging Rock, showed that an Flowever, many thousands of others astonishing number of "solutions" could be have begged to know the secret, and they made to seem plausible by combining fact have it now with the author's consent. with fiction. She put her finger on the 'When, to please her publisher, Joan fundamental fact that the supposeddate of the Lindsay agreed to remove the final chapter, picnic was not a Saturday, as the author said, it was not the only change she made. but a 'Wednesday. At the beginning of the novel there Picnic at Hanging Rock is remarkable is a note by the author: for the fact that it is the only one of Joan Lindsay's works to contain any dates at all. 'Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is Fact One should not be surprised to find them or Fiction, my readersmust decide for ambiguous. themselves. As the fateful picnic took place in the year nineteen hundred, and all the characters who appear in this book are long since dead, it hardly seemsimportant. But after writing it, shealtered it to read "Fact or Fiction or both". The words were never included, but one can ponder them. Many people have spent many hours =''t-"NS +'L" Vt r@^rqilt, ( r-: . ..i W(X* :-,4 \- /i \r rr-}'\ JOHN TAYL()R il i \ THe SpcRrr op HaNcrNc Rocx TrtE lxvrsrnrn FoUNoATIoN SroNr Chapter Eighteen of Picnic at Humging Rock But God had decreedthat you can show just has been the subject of a great deal of so many people climbing a given Rock in one nonsense. picture, and the editor's decision was final. Joan Lindsay wrote it as part of her W'hat we saw was a subtitle. 'Whether novel, intending it to be published. Joan gave me the manuscript of it would have "spoiled" the story to include Chapter Eighteen in December t972, to my it is a question for each reader to decide. The considerable surprise. publishers' readers thought it should be As Promotions Manager for her deleted. It was a purely literary decision, but publisher (Cheshire, Melbourne), I had the historians might well decide that its indirect unwelcome task of dealing with the various result was the creation of the Australian film people who were seeking to buy the film industry as we know it-because it is highly rights. It was not part of my job, and I knew unlikely that there would have been a rush little about it. Eventually, I observedthat Pat to buy the film rights in L972 if Chapter Lovell and Peter W'eir were the best Eighteen had not been deleted. contenders, and I took them to meet Lady As anyone can see,the chapter is quite Lindsay at her house, Mulberry Hill. unfilmable. Film can work only with what As usual with Joan, she made up her God gives it, and God did not give it the same mind instantly that they were the right elasticity He granted the novel- though people, and we might as well have left after people keep trying, as the cutting-room floor five minutes. However, we spent a pleasant forever shows. afternoon chatting and looking at her pictures I understand that one of the greatest and being charmed by her-an effect she sequencesever filmed was Mrs Appleyard produced without the slightest effort or rushing up the Hanging Rock between a artifice. raging bushfire and an approaching Being a professionalpublishing person, thunderstorm, on her way to commit suicide. I naturally hadn't actually read the book. Tnp SscREr oE HnNctttc Rocx Tnr IxvrsrnrnFouNnATroN Srorup People in publishing rarely have time to read "Oh, she didn't work it out," said anything -a f.act that accounts for much of Joan. "Shejust nagged and nagged and I had the tension which arisesbetween them and to tell her." 'Well, they were old friends. authors. Publishers refer to books as "titles" and collectively as "lists". Lists of titles are 'What had I worked out? Nothing much what publishing is about. Actual pages of more than that some words in Chapter Three print are too time-consuming. didn't seem to fit - that the references to I was therefore puzzled by some of the "drifts of rosy smoke" and "the beating of far- conversation, which was about some kind of off drums" seemedto anticipate later events unsolved mystery. I nodded wisely, and told and that the author appeared to be playing myself I had better get hold of a copy and tricks with time. read it over the weekend, which I did. As is now clear, some sections of The next time I saw I mentioned Joan, Chapter Eighteen were transferred (not very that I had noticed a few things that didn't expertly) to Chapter Three. add up, and had drawn some conclusions. The manuscript used by the editor and "Ah," she said. "You're one of very few typesetter has not survived, so one cannot people who've noticed that." I felt pleasedthat examine the method by which this was done. I had joined a srnall club. With hindsight, it looks like a scissors-and- A few months laterJoan took me aside paste job rather than a rewriting of the her some of her after lunch at club with chapter.
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