[New-Poetry] Yeats, Bircumshaw, Sphinx

[Roger Day]

On 8/12/06, Robin <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> From: "Roger Day" <rog3r.day at gmail.com>
>
> > OK, you've got my interest piqued.
> >
> > Aleister Crowley seems to me to be a burlesque bryron, a parody of all
> > the adventurer poets, a small-time comic who tried to make it big  ...
>
> Yup.
>
> It's a small thing, I know, but what I find most difficult to forgive is
> Crowley's hijacking of the motto of Rabelais' Abbey of Thelema for his
> fatuous nonsense.
>
> Two writers more difficult to associate than Rabelais and Crowley it's
> difficult to imagine, but someone on wikipedia seems to take this seriously.

Whoever did that, can't spell monastery :-) I'm not going to change it ...

> I think Sir Francis Dashwood and the Hellfire Club were stirred into the mix
> somewhere, but as by that point I wasn't paying too much attention, I may be
> wrong.
>
>                 :-(
>
> Robin

Unfortunately, yes.  But the whole thing seems typical of the
Crowleyan method. Find some legitimate authority, fictional or
otherwise, that somehow endorses your behaviour, then flog it, or your
followers, to death. Repeat until satisfied.

Roger

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