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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
1a Würtzburgerstr Berlin
die
Jan 17 [1931]
C∴F∴
93
This makes the 13th day of really severe illness. Germer [Karl Germer]—with Cora [Cora Eaton] as a hovering angel (mercifully) in the background—has been kinder than is possible to plain human beings. (You might not understand if I itemized that he insists on my eggs being laid personally by the King of Denmark, and autographed by Frederick the Great. Indeed, I am not sure if I haven't got this mixed up.)
No, there seems no particular point in your coming here at present, since you and he seem to be working harmoniously in an automatic way.
I can see no point in discussing business at present, especially as there is none to discuss. But the bed-rock fact is that of £1,500 put into the Mandrake [Mandrake Press] for a specific purpose, not one penny was ever spent for that purpose. And the Great Snag remains, how to get out Vol III of the Confessions [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley], which you and I agree to be the critical issue. I suggest that you concentrate on that.
I do think you are wrong to ask Germer to apologize to you for his opinion on Thynne [Major Robert Thynne]. Why not for his "pro-German leanings"?
We got the 11 pictures, thank the Lord! But oh! my Dead Souls screen! The best big thing I've done—
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