|
Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to J.F.C. Fuller
[EXTRACT]
[18 December 1909]
[in the handwriting of Victor B. Neuburg.]
Dear Fuller,
. . . Tonight I am almost too exhausted to talk, and I couldn't possibly write, so got the regular Scribe to do me this great favour, for which I am extremely grateful.
I cannot possible express in words my sense of how kind and good he has been throughout. It has been an awful job for him, writing down my ravings at all hours of the day and night, and in the forty-nine Classical positions. God help him for a silly B______. If only he had brains, he'd make an awful good chap. But enough of this distasteful subject.
[ . . . ]
I hope to find you a mass of learning on the subject of Kelly [Edward Kelly] (not Gerald [Gerald Kelly]. And why they describe him as an artist, God only knows.)
I have gone carefully through the proofs of the Temple [The Temple of Solomon the King] and dear, kind Victor [Victor B. Neuburg] has been good enough to glance at them, but is trying to soak up the credit. I have had an awful job at keeping him off these Arab boys. He has a frightful lust for brown bottoms, because when he was at school he was kicked by a man with brown boots; and being a masochist as well as a paederast, that accounts for it.
|