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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND? Aleister Crowley?Dutton ($2.00). Sir Peter Pendragon, demobilized English ace, acquires the cocaine habit and a lady her friends term " Unlimited Lou " in the same large evening. They marry and proceed to Paris?varying cocaine with heroin when the first begins to pall???and, after a lurid continental honeymoon, return to England and sink into the nethermost hell of the drug-user. From this they are rescued by an extraordinary swami-plus-demigod, yclept King Laions, who removes them to the island of Telepylus?a sort of Marie Correllian Abbey of Theleme?where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: *North of 36 | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

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