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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Aleister Crowley
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[20 May 1930]
The more I think about the Mandrake [Mandrake Press] proposition, the more inadequate I feel. I simply cannot read books. I see more and more that it just is not my line. To read a book takes a great effort, and even then requires a week to finish it. A few days afterwards I have forgotten its contents, or I have even forgotten the first chapters before I finish the book. What should I talk to writers then? I have nothing to tell them. The whole thing is not my line. There is also a physical reason. If I read at the rate of 50 pages a day my eyes begin to hurt and the next morning I have difficulty to open them. That is why I more or less stopped reading some 15 years ago.
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