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After preparing for a proper reincarnation, the dying Aleister Crowley flubs one syllable of the magickal incantation...and comes back as Elmer Fudd. "...the author has a high knowledge of esoteric symbolism and Crowley's works...Reading Elmer Crowley is like reading Crowley's inner dialogue at 3am, after an intensive journey into his own inner abyss. It is therefore, a magickal working that Crowley himself would be proud of." "...this book is twisted, fantastical and genius. It captures the feel of Crowley with his bawdy, politically incorrect irreverence, his arrogance and his committed magickal spirituality and awareness..." |
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This self-described 'picaresque graphic novel' reads like an account of Crowley's death-bed fever dream terribly wrong, wherein the Fifty Eight Wrathful Deities take on the aspect of warped and sinister versions of Looney Toons archetypes.... Bradley emulates Crowley's first-person narrative style throughout by mixing ostentatious verbiage with calculated-to-shock impropriety, and the result reads like a trippy, post-mortem, long-lost epilogue to The Confessions." |
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"The voice was dead perfect...this book doesn't go for the easy laugh. It goes for the deeply nuanced in-joke...I can't imagine a hip Thelemite NOT having this book in her library..." |
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Second Edition, with improved |
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As with FAMILY ROMANCE, Tom has accepted the challenge posed by a stack of preexisting art. In this case the ekphrasis is in verse, and the ineffable images have sprung from the cranial alembic of alchemical visionary David Aronson. |
From Nick Patterson's unconsciousness a hundred images geyser forth. Observing no order, acknowledging no linguistic import, they loom up in Tom Bradley's face and gradually coalesce into this-- |
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Meanwhile, Mom won't stop trying to mount her children... |
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All-new Second Edition, rewritten, re-formatted in adherence to the creators' original vision and verbalization! Now with even more visuals, exvaginating yet further verbals! |