Correspondence from Wilfred Talbot Smith to Regina Kahl

 

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[27 August 1943]

 

 

I have no intention of being a guiney pig, scape goat, living dead Budah, Cyrus Spragg [The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg] or Krishnamurti. I still intend to run my own life. . . .

     

I am not a stud. I will do my own selecting of secret visitors or have none. I don't like being tatooed. I don't like doctors. I don't like stony knols in the bleak treeless desert of Ranch Royal. I have seen it. . . .

     

I am still a Thelemite. Still believe He is the profit of the Gods. And a damned swell poet. But I am just plain Wilfred T. Smith from here on.

 

 

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