Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.