Lindsay was famously cagey about whether any of her dreamy, ethereal novel was actually true — something which intrigued director Peter Weir so much he decided to keep the ambiguity going by adding a similar introduction and postscript to his 1975 film adaptation.
JEAN GENET famously spoke of a theater among the graves, one that embraced the cagey void of death through the equally mysterious undertaking of art and cast a bit of shadow on «a world that seems to be moving so merrily towards analytical clarity.»