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Correspondence from Katherine Talbot to Wilfred Talbot Smith
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[17 April 1928]
Kit dearest please, please don't have anything more to do with Aleister Crowley, don't lets live anything but an ordinary every-day-life. What do you need occultism for? We can be so happy together. But I am afraid and suspicious of those old practices. They always remind me of those awful days when you cut that cross on your chest and that other dreadful day when I found you soaked in ether. Please promise me that you will give it all up, just give it all up for me. I hate and detest A.C., the very thought of him makes me see red and say all kinds of things I would not say. That is what I really wanted to say. . . . I just want you to feel absolutely free to carry on The Great Work, which would never be the case if I were down there, because it antagonises me so. There again, it isn't what I mean at all. I don't want you to be free to do that at all. I only want you to be free to devote all your time and attention to me. What one says and what one feels are so often entirely different conditions. Only I can't pretend or even fool myself that I could put up with certain conditions.
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