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Post by marksamuels on Aug 23, 2010 17:19:35 GMT
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Post by David A. Riley on Aug 24, 2010 8:53:05 GMT
This picture of The Great Beast is just not right, Craig. He looks far too jolly, like someone's favourite, slightly eccentric, not-quite-there uncle.
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Post by marksamuels on Aug 24, 2010 10:44:41 GMT
Can't remember where I read it, but. in this photo, Crowley has slipped that ball with the hole over his erect penis. Mark S.
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Post by David A. Riley on Aug 24, 2010 10:49:38 GMT
indeed!
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Post by dem bones on Aug 24, 2010 14:00:13 GMT
Can't remember where I read it, but. in this photo, Crowley has slipped that ball with the hole over his erect penis. Mark S. Thanks for sharing! Having worked through the 'Selected Book Reviews from The Gate of Knowledge' i know i would adore an omnibus of his lit. crit. like i never have his occult writings and poems. Poor Machen and Sidney C. Tapp!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 24, 2010 21:30:41 GMT
This picture of The Great Beast is just not right, Craig. He looks far too jolly, like someone's favourite, slightly eccentric, not-quite-there uncle. Aha David, have a closer look at the eyes... If that's not scary enough here's Crowley at thirteen. Somehow you just can't envisage the Great Beast nicking your desert at school dinners but he has that look.
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Post by monker on Aug 25, 2010 1:30:57 GMT
That would be some feat, indeed. He was probably quite capable of nicking your sweets, though.
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Post by David A. Riley on Aug 25, 2010 7:35:36 GMT
This picture of The Great Beast is just not right, Craig. He looks far too jolly, like someone's favourite, slightly eccentric, not-quite-there uncle. Aha David, have a closer look at the eyes... If that's not scary enough here's Crowley at thirteen. Somehow you just can't envisage the Great Beast nicking your desert at school dinners but he has that look. The younger picture of him looks like he's ready to audition for Just William.
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Post by cw67q on Aug 25, 2010 7:53:36 GMT
Why has no-one ever written a Tom Sharpeseque satire on Crowley. His mantra "Do what thou Wilt" seems to beg for such treatment.
- chris
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Post by David A. Riley on Aug 25, 2010 8:09:10 GMT
Why has no-one ever written a Tom Sharpeseque satire on Crowley. His mantra "Do what thou Wilt" seems to beg for such treatment. - chris Or a sitcom? Stephen Fry as Crowley and Dawn French as one of his acolytes? Is that horrifying enough? Actually, Chemical Wedding came quite close to doing a Tom Sharpe on him.
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Post by marksamuels on Aug 25, 2010 13:51:07 GMT
The younger picture of him looks like he's ready to audition for Just William. David Shouldn't that be Just Will-I-Am ? Mark S.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 25, 2020 2:53:54 GMT
Aleister Crowley - The Drug and Other Stories (Wordsworth Editions, September, 2010) With an introduction by William Breeze and a foreword by David Tibet.
This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875–1947). Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Of the forty-nine stories in the present volume, only thirty were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear here for the first time.
Like their author, Crowley’s stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in places he had lived and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris, Edwardian London, pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the first World War. The title story ‘The Drug’ stands as one of the first—if not the first—accounts of a psychedelic experience. His ‘Black and Silver’ is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre. ‘Atlantis’ is a masterpiece of occult fantasy, a dark satire that can stand with Samuel Butler’s Erewhon. Frank Harris considered ‘The Testament of Magdalen Blair’ the most terrifying tale ever written.
Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.we'll have to wait for the middle of next month for this, but here's the contents list, which i found at Lashtal. The Three Characteristics The Wake World T’ien Tao The Stone of the Philosophers The Drug Cancer? At the Fork of the Roads The Dream Circean Illusion d’Amoureux The Soul-Hunter The Daughter of the Horseleech The Violinist The Vixen The Ordeal of Ida Pendragon Apollo Bestows the Violin Across the Gulf His Secret Sin The Woodcutter Professor Zircon The Vitriol-Thrower The Testament of Magdalen Blair Ercildoune The Stratagem Lieutenant Finn’s Promotion The Chute A Death Bed Repentance Felo de Se The Argument that Took the Wrong Turning Robbing Miss Horniman Face Which Things are an Allegory The Crime of the Impasse de l’Enfant Jésus Atlantis The Mysterious Malady The Bald Man Black and Silver The Humour of Pauline Pepper A Nativity Every Precaution God’s Journey The Colour of My Eyes Dedit! Colonel Pacton’s Brother The Vampire of Vespuccia As You Were! Only a Dog The Virgin A Masque The Escape Snagged a later edition of this (2015, red cover with pentagram, and 5 more stories) a few weeks ago and have read (or, latterly, skimmed) the first dozen or so and they are uniformly awful - actually, no, not uniformly awful, some are way more awful than others. It's no surprise that many were never published in his lifetime - I guess even a megalomaniac with free reign to publish whatever crap he wanted in his own magazine still needs to exercise some degree of quality control. To be dumped on a local charity shop next time I'm feeling uncharitable.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 27, 2020 16:16:15 GMT
Dipped in and out of The Drug a few years back, quickly lost interest after reaching conclusion that Michel Parry had cherry-picked the more entertaining stories for his Mayflower Books of Black Magic. The Testament of Magdalen Blair has stuck with me since first experience in Peter Haining's The Nightmare Reader, to which it is ideally suited.
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Post by fritzmaitland on Oct 10, 2020 22:30:54 GMT
For Shocktober 10th I went with The Drug, At The Fork Of The Roads and The Vixen. I liked the last one. 😀😀😀
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Post by dem bones on Oct 11, 2020 8:58:28 GMT
For Shocktober 10th I went with The Drug, At The Fork Of The Roads and The Vixen. I liked the last one. 😀😀😀 Ah yes. The Vixen ...
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