Misha Williams

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Brian goes on to write, "The Jewish legends about Lilith say that she was 
the first wife of Adam before Eve was given to him. By this means she 
became the mother of all uncanny things who share this planet invisibly 
with mortals and are known in many cultures as the fairy races or the 
Djinn." 
 
Brian proudly concludes that he is far more evolved than his father who 
he feels was "polluted" by the traditional British public school education. 
"It was because he realized the higher perception was not his that he so 
eagerly resorted to those whom he believed possessed it and could aid 
him by seeing that which to his own eyes was obscure." 
 
Concerning Fawcett's daring and "recklessness", Joan told me how he 
once took her on his motor bike at great speed round the Devon lanes. It  
skidded on a corner and both went sailing through the air and landed in a 
nearby field. "Daddy gave us a tremendous amount of fun, because he 
didn't realize the danger. But he should have realized. He was always 
encouraging us to climb across roofs and up trees while Mother was 
beside herself with worry. Once I fell on the cervical vertebrae of my 
neck and that cost me a fortnight in bed with high delirium and 
unconscious. Since I had that accident my neck has always been slightly 
stooped." She added "Daddy also liked playing tricks. Mother had more 
of a gentler sense of humour. Though he could be cold and biting, he  
never lost his temper." 
 
As I write this, I hear that another expedition will be setting off soon - 
this time in the right direction. Using details from me from this play and 
from the Secret Papers, they intend to solve the mystery. If they find the 
location of the village where Rattin met Fawcett, being held as a captive 
in 1932, the chances are that the tribe (probably Apiacas, a branch of the 
Nambiquara) are now extinct but some of their elders may still be around, 
possibly living in the shanty slums of Sao Paolo. If one of them could 
be tracked down, he or she might remember the white captive and we 
may get closer to discovering his fate. 
 
After researching all this for 20 years (friends say it has been far too long) 
and sifting through the Secret Papers for eight of those years, the play and 
this preface merely state what I have found. 

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                       "Amazonia" 
                                                         a dark comedy         
 
 
 
 
 
    
 
 
      by        
 
                           Misha Williams      
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
     
Moorwood Productions. Tel: [phone]
 
 
 
     
       Literary agent: Peters, Fraser & Dunlop 
     Copyright Misha Williams 2004   

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The play is a dark comedy. It is based entirely on real events.  In 1925, 
the Fawcett expedition to unexplored Amazonia disappeared without 
trace. Recently, a trunk of archives belonging to Brian Fawcett, the 
explorer's younger son, was opened for the first time. They reveal the 
full impact that the tragedy had on the family over a period of seventy 
years. They uncover unusual realities and extraordinary notions. Through 
Brian's memory and stream of consciousness, the play discloses the 
amazing secrets behind the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th 
century.  
                                              ______________________________ 
 
"There is every reason to believe that there is a certain point within the 
mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and 
the future, the communicable and the incommunicable, the high and the 
low are no longer perceived contradictorily"… 
 
"The only images capable of conveying a lofty idea are those which 
create in one's consciousness a state of surprise and insecurity calculated 
to raise the consciousness to the idea in question, where it can be 
grasped in all its freshness and strength. Magic rites and genuine poetry 
serve no other purpose". 
                                               from "The Morning of the Magicians" 
                                                     by Louis Pauwels and Jaques Bergier            
 
 
 
"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth looking at" 
                                                                          
                                                                      Oscar Wilde 
 
                                                                       
Elementals:  
 
"Carl Jung regularly evoked a person he called Philemon who became a 
kind of guide and teacher to him".                                                                    
 
"An individual who harbours strong desires creates an elemental which 
can be regarded as a living entity. In certain cases elementals may have 
been invested with so much energy that they achieve a certain degree of 
independence of their creator". 
                                     
      from "The Dictionary of Mind and Spirit" 
                                                           by Donald Watson 
 

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