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by Christian Lancia
Having followed the strange goings-on at the haunted house of HLAS for only some seven months, I am certainly not the best expert to assess all its mysteries correctly. Nevertheless, a few curious details have caught my eye. As usual, when you arrive as a totally green newcomer to a strange place, you gradually sink into the bog of realizing what you have missed, that there is more to it than meets the eye, and that all the most fascinating phenomena belong to the past.
IS THE LAST STATEMENT TRUE? HOW DO YOU KNOW?
You notice the place is full of closed wardrobes containing skeletons, (EVIDENCE?) the corollary of which is that you sooner or later just can't resist the temptation of trying to open them up and let them out, just to see what happens.
However, let's not overdo it, at once, but simply content ourselves with just a few observations, just a few glimpses of the main characters of the play and what they really are up to and all about. Since this task of photographing the weird place from the inside was entrusted to me by a Marlovian, let's start with the Marlovians. They are a weird lot. The less said about them, the better. Their ominous figurehead, at which even the learnedest Stratfordian trembles, is a certain John Baker, a veritable Johannes Factotum, expert in just too many fields, something of a universal genius in the vast area of amateur knowledge. He knows everything and is cocksure of everything, calling all arguments questioning his authority "bullshit", and naming all opponents nuts who don't know what they are talking about. Naturally, he has not succeeded in making himself very popular.
Realizing the tragic fact that all those
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