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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Frieda Harris
Nov 11
Did you really suppose that Mercury could allow your meanness about the tea-cup to go unpunished? "The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be watered unto himself". I (and Mr Alfred Spero) gave you the opportunity of making a royal gesture: you reacted like Michael Juste! In your place I should have said nothing, but hurried to 134 New Bond Str and reappeared next day with the "Jewelled Sèvres" cup and saucer. That grandeur—if it kept me broke for a month—would have been re-paid eightfold. I'm telling you this, for it's a magical formula of enormous virtue to accept a challenge in the royal manner.
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