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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Eddie Saayman
[Undated: circa December 1923]
Eddie
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It appears from what O.P.V. [Norman Mudd] says that your Thesis is not yet as I understood, a voluntary essay for a Junior Fellowship, but obligatory for your Oxford Degree which I understood you had already got. This rather changes the situation.
O.P.V. says you have undertaken too big a job, that you do not know enough of the subject to make good. He says you have practically committed yourself to write a Revolutionary masterpiece in 6 months.
Well, after all why not? At the worst, an ambitious failure is better than a stupid success and anyhow, why should you fail? I am going to furnish you with such notes as I can. I woke in the middle of last night with a whole lot in my head which I jotted down and am enclosing. The solution of the simultaneously paradox seems to me very valuable. I really can't see why that alone shouldn't make your examiners sit up. I wish you would write to me at length with regard to any difficulties. I hope to be in Paris within a week or two and we might conceivably arrange an interview before the 21st or whenever term begins.
I won't bother you with more just now. Best of all good wishes for the New Year.
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