![]() ![]() But something happened, and, what’s more unsettling, the girl is in collusion with it. ![]() You don’t know, and the girl isn’t specific. Maybe they’re fairies, maybe they’re Roman statues hidden away in the English woods, or maybe they’re her nurse and others using/abusing the girl. (And yes, haha, I get it, funny funny, but even that joke might make for an interesting postcolonial story riffing on this story.) Who or what the White People are is left confused. That part, The Green Book, is written by a girl remembering her encounter with “the White People”. Once you get past the standard Machen frame of two Victorian weirdoes talking about “evil” and get into the found manuscript, the story gets weird. While drinking my beer in an empty bar this weekend I read Arthur Machen’s “The White People”. ![]()
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