Maruens. Yes
Sconrio, K.C. And that is all there is against Mr. Crowley ?
Matus. There
is“ The Sword
of Song:
Scowrio,
K.C. What
is that ?
Maries, Out of some bi
two (some say four) the initials of whose words make other most
wproper words.*
Sconvio, KC. Did anyone discover this before you did ?
Maras
Sconr4o, K.C. Did Captain Poller in his three years’ laborious
study of Mr, Crowley's works discover it?
Marans, No,
‘onPIO, K.C, Is there any point in these—do you call thy
jokes?
Maruses. Nopoint
at all
Sconvi0, K.C. Are Mr, Crowley's jokes usually pointless?
Maries. Alas, no!
Sconbio, K.C. And did not the reviewers discover this?
Maries, Unfortunately, no. On the contrary, Mr. G. K.
Chesterton wrote a column in the Daily Nees, in which the book
is treated as a serious contribution to Philosophy.
Scorpio, KC. Is there anything else?
Maruens, There's the # Mothers Tragedy’
‘Scorrio, K.C. What is that?
Maries. "A book of poems one of w
which T blush to mention.
Scourio, K.C. Has any wretch previously dealt with it?
Marien’. Yes.
Scorrio, KC. Who?
Marites, Sophoclesin Oedipus Rex; Shakespeare in Hamlet and
in Pericles; Malory in Morte d’Arthur; Byron in Parisina, Manfred,
‘and other poems
; Shelley in the Cenci, Rosalind and Helen, and
in Laon and Cythna; Wilde in Salome; Ford in ‘The Unnatural
Combat she’s
a Whore; Moses, Wagner, Schiller,
Alfieri, and many’ other authors of the highest reputation
SconPIo, K.C, But Mr, Crowley tries to self his works by
printing reviews which describe them as “revolting”?
Marites, Yes, that’s the bad part
Sconvo, K.C. "Has not Mr. Crowley habitually reprinted all
sorts of reviews of his works, good and bad, with a giant's contempt
for reviewers?
Mariuns, Of course.
th deals with a subject