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THE CRIME OF EDITH CAVELL |
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The Crime of Edith Cavell |
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The International: A Review of Two Worlds. |
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Volume X, Number 1. |
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January 1916. |
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International Monthly, Inc. |
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New York. |
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Pages 24-25. |
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15 Cents. |
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Comments by Aleister Crowley: |
One day, however, I got genuinely drunk, not with alcohol but with indignation. It was the day of the murder of Edith Cavell. I sat down and wrote an article --- a stained glass window representing von Bissing as Jesus Christ, "that great-hearted, simple-minded, trusting German". He extends his hand to her; and says, with tears in his eyes, "Miss Cavell, I trust you!" Then she acts the part of Judas; and I conclude with a display of fireworks, in which she is welcomed to hell by Lucrezia Borgia and the Marchioness de Brinvilliers and several other vampires, whose names I have forgotten, having others closer to hand. It makes me weep for Germany when I think the Viereck published such hideous and transparent irony without turning a hair! Americans do not understand irony at all. But Viereck should have done so, considering the Jewish hetaera and the wily old robber baron in his ancestry. But are any tears salt enough to weep for England when I think that none of my countrymen could read my bitterness and anger between the lines of that comic travesty of blasphemy? — The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 752. |
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