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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to George MacNie Cowie
[20 November 1913]
Care Frater,
I have not had time to write to you, and I have not time to write to you, but will you call on Williamson of 9, York Place, and ask him how much he would charge to draw up the little mortgage.
I am going to Paris on Monday perhaps, but expect to be back on December 15, and then I suppose I shall not get away again. My only hope of spending the next winter abroad is that they will put me in prison in Paris.
It is extraordinary that a man of your acuteness of intellect should be taken in by the shoddy and captandum humbug of the later Wilde. So far as there is anything in him genuine at all it was his pose itself, and any sincerity which you may admire in "De Profundis" is simply the yellow streak.
I am going to hear Larkin to-night. Of course, as a man I am an Irish rebel of the most virulent type, and I want to see every Englishman killed before my eyes: I would ship the English women to Germany, as I don't like Germans either. But, of course, speaking as a man of the world, I am a reactionary Tory of the most bigoted type, although a Pro-Boer; that is to say, my objection to the Boer war was the depreciation of property which it caused. I quite understand your own attitude, but it appears to me quite absurd. You have tried to judge the matter on general principles, without prejudice, and you have consequently no business to meddle with politics, which is entirely dishonest.
Yours fraternally,
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