Secret Society or Society with Secrets, There's Really Only One Way to Find Out ; Your Views

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THE title of this column has been a bit of a bind at times. I have to tell people what it's called when I contact them in the first instance, and as soon as I do it conjures up images in their heads.

Most people so far have replied with something along the lines of, 'Well, we're really not that secret you know', and I in turn have to explain how being secret is no prerequisite to appearing in Secret Society; it's just a name.

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Secret Society or Society with Secrets, There's Really Only One Way to Find Out ; Your Views

But it carries with it an association. One which I have never really confronted. Until now.

So draw near, dear reader, and allow me to introduce The Secret Society.

We're not really a secret society, I would say," says Maurice, true to form. "It's one of the oldest fraternities in the world. For me it's been a great refuge."

I have lost count of the number of times during my years writing this column that I've been asked whether or not I have 'done the Masons yet' as though they were the only obvious subjects for my attention.

The truth is, I needed a catalyst of some kind to...

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