31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021

31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021

October 4: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (1967)

Quote:

The girl so far had remembered nothing of her experiences on the Rock; nor, in Doctor McKenzie’s opinion or that of the two eminent special­ists from Sydney and Melbourne, would she ever remember. A portion of the delicate mechanism of the brain appeared to be irrevocably damaged. 

“Like a clock, you know,” the doctor explained. “A clock that stops under a certain set of unusual conditions and refuses ever to go again beyond a particular point.”