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Guidance for a Picnic at Hanging Rock
Mrs. Appleyard
Good morning, girls.
Girls
Good morning, Mrs. Appleyard.
Mrs. Appleyard
Well young ladies, we are indeed fortunate in the weather for our picnic to Hanging Rock. I have instructed Mademoiselle that the day is likely to be warm, you may remove your gloves once the drag has passed through Wood End. We will partake a luncheon at the picnic grounds near the rock. Once again let me remind you the rock itself is extremely dangerous, you are therefore forbidden of any tomboy foolishness in the matter of exploration, even on the lowest slopes. I also wish to remind you, the vicinity is renowned for its venomous snakes and poisonous ants of various species. It is, however, a geological marvel.
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A Request to Join the Group
Edith
May I come, too, please?
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Isolation in a Vast Expanse
Edith Horton
Except for those people down there, we might be the only living creatures in the whole world.
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Perception and Reality in a Dreamlike State
Miranda St. Clare
What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream.
[first lines]
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A Reflection on Loss and Absence
Mademoiselle de Poitiers
I thought you had gone for ever.
[to Irma]
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Geological Time and Eruptions Explained
Miss McCraw
Only a million years ago. Quite a recent eruption really. The rocks all round - Mount Macedon itself - must be all of 350 million years old. Siliceous lava, forced up from deep down below. Soda trachytes extruded in a highly viscous state, building the steep sided mamelons we see in Hanging Rock. And quite young geologically speaking. Barely a million years.
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Understanding Miranda's Secrets and Foreknowledge
Sara Waybourne
Miranda knows lots of things other people don't know. Secrets. She knew she wouldn't come back.
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A Farewell from Mademoiselle de Poitiers
Mademoiselle de Poitiers
Au revoir mes enfants. Au revoir. Au revoir.
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Loss of Memory and Identity
Irma Leopold
I remember - nothing! Nothing! I remember nothing!
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The Burden of Time and Memory
Ben
Ah, you wouldn't have the time, I suppose, Miss?
Mademoiselle
Ah, Miranda- your pretty little diamond watch?
Miranda
Don't wear it anymore. Can't stand the ticking above my heart.
Irma
If it were mine, I'd wear it always- even in the bath. Would you Mr. Hussey?
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Endless Waiting for Connection
Irma Leopold
Waiting a million years, just for us.
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Deciding to Stay Behind
Albert
We'll have to be going soon. It'll be dark before we get back.
Michael
I'm staying here.
Albert
You're what?
Michael
I'm staying here.
Albert
Here? on the rock?
Michael
Yes.
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The Timing of Life's Moments
Miranda St. Clare
Everything begins and ends at the exactly right time and place.
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Unanswered Questions and Cautionary Advice
Mr. Whitehead
There's some questions got answers and some haven't.
Mrs. Fitzhubert
Don't go too far... and be careful! There could be snakes.
Michael Fitzhubert
I think I'll just... eh... stretch my legs a bit.
[repeated line]
Miss Lumley
I believe Mrs. Appleyard's decided you're not to go to the picnic, Sara. That makes two of us.
Albert Crundall
The old man hired me to look after the horses. I'm buggered if I'm gonna be likin a bloody garden party.
Marion
A surprising number of human beings are without purpose, though it is probable that they are performing some function unknown to themselves.
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A Call for Miranda's Return
Edith Horton
Miranda. Miranda. Miranda, don't go up there! Come back!
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Impact of Tragedy on School Enrollment
Mrs. Appleyard
This tragedy is little more than a week old and already three, three mark you, sets of parents have written advising me that their daughters will not be here next term. Now the newspapers have something further to sensationalise about. Newspapers all over the world have headlined our morbid affair Miss Lumley. I mean, you realise that I suppose.
[to Miss Lumley]
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Differing Perspectives on Responsibility and Obligation
Albert
As far as I'm concerned, that's the stone end of it.
Michael
Well, that's not the end of it as far as I'm concerned. They may be out there - dying of thirst on - on that infernal rock and - you and I sitting here drinking cold and bloody beer!
Albert
That's were you and me's different. If you want my advice, the sooner you forget the whole thing, the better.
Michael
But I can't forget it! And I never will.
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Desire for Adventure Amidst Loss
Michael
Albert, I want to go back to the rock - and to look for them. Will you come with me?
Albert
Beautiful birds them swans. A week in the bush - they'd be dead by now.
Michael
Then, I'll go alone.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock - Miss McCraw
Miss McCraw
The mountain comes to Muhammad, and Hanging Rock comes to Mr. Hussey.
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Disappointment in Nature's Beauty
Edith Horton
Why can't we just sit on this log, and look at the ugly old rock from here? It's nasty here. I never thought it would be so nasty, or I wouldn't have come!
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Recognition of Beauty in Miranda
Mademoiselle
Ah! Now I know.
Miss McCraw
What do you know?
Mademoiselle
I know that Miranda is a Botticelli angel.
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Poetry Discovery in an Unexpected Place
Edith Horton
Blanche says Sara writes poetry- in the dunny! She found one there on the floor, all about Miranda.
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A Reflection on Loss and Innocence
Irma Leopold
Sara reminds me of a little deer Papa brought home once. I looked after it, but it died. Mama always said it was doomed.
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Fear and Control in Sara's Experience
Sara Waybourne
She was afraid I'd run away, so she shaved my head. I bit her arm - it bled. So she painted my head with gentian violet.
[to Minnie]
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A Terrible Event Has Occurred
Mademoiselle de Poitiers
Madam, something terrible has happened.
[to Mrs. Appleyard]
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Crude Commentary on Physical Appearance
Albert
I thought the little fat one was gonna take a bath. Some of them are real lookers! Have a look at the shape of the dark one with the curls. Built like an hourglass. And have a guard the last one, the blonde. Oh, she'd have a decent pair of legs- all the way up to her bum.
Michael
I'd rather you didn't say crude things like that, Albert.
Albert
I say the crude things; you just think them.
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A Lesson in Love and Letting Go
Miranda St. Clare
You must learn to love someone else, apart from me, Sara. I won't be here much longer.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock - Mrs. Appleyard
Mrs. Appleyard
She hadn't been molested?
['''Dr. McKenzie''': No, no, nothing like that. I have examined her and it's quite intact.]
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A Call to Look Beyond the Ordinary
Miranda St. Clare
Look! Not down at the ground, Edith. Way up there in the sky.
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The Folly of Human Pursuits and Nature
Miss McCraw
This we do for pleasure, so that we may shortly be at the mercy of venomous snakes and poisonous ants. How foolish can human creatures be.
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Mystery Surrounds Missing Young Ladies at Rock
Ben
Well Ma'am, the strength of it is this. Three of your young ladies and uh - Miss McCraw are missing - on the rock.
Mrs. Appleyard
What happened?
Ben
Well now, Mrs. Appleyard, that's just the trouble. Nobody knows what happened.
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The Mystery of Time and Magnetism
Miss McCraw
It stopped at twelve. It never stopped before. Must be something magnetic.
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