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Post by Nifty on Mar 3, 2024 11:42:01 GMT 1
There will never be another….. publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12197222100/The-Confessions-of-Aleister-Crowley-an-AutobiographyI made this post after looking through some notes that I made > thirty years ago vis ‘New York, on the other hand, has been thrown up by a series of disconnected accidents. The vanity of the natives led them therefore to concentrate their enthusiasm on a dejected statue of commerce intended for the Suez Canal. This they had purchased second hand and grandiloquently labelled ‘ Liberty enlightening the world’. They had been prophetic enough to put it on a stand with its back to the mainland.’
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Post by Nifty on Mar 8, 2024 11:54:35 GMT 1
Some of Crowly’s comments seem unchanged today. On guidebooks: “I failed to realize that the one book was as full of grotesque blunders and inaccuracies as the other.” I thought that Tony Wheeler prefaced his guidebooks with the warning that good places can turn bad and find it such a paradox that the one of the reasons for this being the case was largely due his writings. I met many travellers clutching their copy of West Asia on a Shoestring. I had the one but tried not to flash it about in public too much. tonywheeler.com.au/meet-the-new-india-same-as-the-old-india/
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Post by traveller on Mar 10, 2024 10:51:45 GMT 1
Miles Jupp History, it made me cry with laughter, and part of it takes place in Normandy.
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Post by Nifty on Mar 10, 2024 13:24:17 GMT 1
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Post by Nifty on Mar 11, 2024 17:55:47 GMT 1
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Post by Nifty on Mar 20, 2024 11:45:21 GMT 1
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