Fred (host, reader)

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Undertow: Familiar Haunts · The Green Book, Part 1 · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

I found this book, the manuscript began, in a drawer in the old bureau that stands on the landing.

It was a very rainy day, and I could not go out, so in the afternoon I got a candle and rummaged in a bureau.

Nearly all the drawers were full of old dresses, but one of the small ones looked empty.

And I found this book hidden right at the back.

I wanted a book like this, so I took it to write in.

It is full of secrets.

I have a great many other books of secrets I have written, hidden in a safe place, and I'm going to write here many of the old secrets and some new ones.

But there are some I shall not put down at all.

I must not write down the real names, the days and months which I found out a year ago, nor the way to make the Aklo letters, or the Qian language, or the Great Beautiful Circles, nor the Mao game.

Nor the chief songs.

I may write something about all these things, but not the way to do them for peculiar reasons.

And I must not say who the nymphs are, or the doles, or gelo, or what Vulas mean.

All these are most secret secrets, and I'm glad when I remember what they are, and how many wonderful languages I know, but there are some things that I call the secrets of the secrets of the secrets that I dare not think of unless I am quite alone.

And then I shut my eyes.

eyes and put my hands over them and whisper the word, and the Alala come.

I only do this at night in my room or in certain woods that I know, but I must not describe them as they are secret woods.

Then there are the ceremonies, which are all of them important, but some are more delightful than others.

There are the white ceremonies, and the green ceremonies, and the scarlet ceremonies.

The scarlet ceremonies are the best, but there is only one place where they can be performed properly, though there is a very nice imitation which I have done in other places.

Besides these, I

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