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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Cora Germer
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[13 November 1931]
Things are going so well—Mrs. B. [Bertha Busch] saw Dr. Goertz [journalist Fritz Goetz] yesterday; I am to see him today, and if he will agree to "discover" me, the trick is won, for Krako [Jacques Krako] would immediately come in. But even so, we cannot get all our people "under one hat" and rush them into signing an agreement. But given full rest from daily worry till December 31, I feel positive that we shall by then have matters so far advanced that we shall be able to draw funds. In which case you will not be forgotten.
There is always also the chance of selling Mortaldello—though [Max] Reinhardt is not the man to engage himself to spend millions of marks on such a big production without careful thought. Again, Schiffers [Margo and Marcellus] think of buying out the Thelema Verlag. And there is the general question of selling my translation rights in Germany in a lump. Etc. etc.
Now do please see that it is to your own interest to keep us going. If we smash now, it would take years—at the best—to pick up the pieces. This is the last real chance, but it is a good one. I agree with you that Yorke [Gerald Yorke] ought to do everything; but if he won't, we can't make him, and there is no time left to argue.
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