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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
chez M. Schlosser, Cugnon—Montehan, A la Semois.
May 3 [1929]
C∴F∴
93
I enclose Cope's [Stuart R. Cope] letter.
Aumont [Gerard Aumont] writes enclosing Hundt's letter. The words are (date Dec 17, '28) "Je we crois pas, de reste, que ce monsieur aie l'interior de desueurer definture ment a Paris". Shewing that he had already started his snitch, or at least determined to do so.
Aumont says nothing about fulfilling his engagements with us, but talks of 10,000 fr[ancs] at the minimum he must have before leaving Tunis! You might well write him what Fuller [J.F.C. Fuller] used to call a [illegible]. He understands literature, but has a boy's illusions about how to get on. I had them myself at his age. All the drivel about the dignity of the great artist! He doesn't understand one thing about civilized life.
I'm feeling fit now; merely the handiwork of fever and bronchitis. I went an hour's walk yesterday—up to Notre Dame de Prompt Secours. I promised the old bitch a candle if $1000 came in before May 15.
Encouraging letter from Denizot. He agrees that we can go for the Quotidien. And seems to have no doubt at all that we can return to Paris in a month.
About Carter [Lieutenant Colonel John Carter]. I think we should take as true Noble Hall's statement—for his funk was pitiful! Ergo tell C. that you know for certain that all the spy tosh and the moral stink is merely a smoke-screen, and that what we want to know is what means "the real reason is so dreadful that we dare not even think of it". I may be a case of my making the "amende honourable" to Pudding and Pie—or, it may be just Nothing. One is very strong when one is thought to have a terrible secret which can never be divulged—provided that the secret does not exist. Cf. Blavatsky, the Dreyfus Case, Freemasonry etc.
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Fraternally
666.
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