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Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.

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Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

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Joan Lindsay

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Born: November 16, 1896
Died: December 23, 1984 (aged 88)
Bio: Lady Joan à Beckett Lindsay was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Trained in her youth as a painter, Lindsay published her first literary work in 1936 at age forty under a pseudonym, a satirical novel titled Through Darkest Pondelayo.
Known for:
  1. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967)
  2. Time Without Clocks (1962)
  3. Through Darkest Pondelayo (1936)
  4. Syd Sixpence (1982)
  5. David and Meagan Middleton

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