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Page 1 of 11907 · PDF PAGE 51
…OPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS 31 engaging Dr. Waistcoat’s celebrated troupe of Variety Artistes to per form at intervals during the evening. Mrs. Bones. I’m sure we’re very much obliged by your kindness; I trust it did not cost you too much. Bowley. Waistcoat is an old friend of mine, you know; connected with the Straights—the Dover Straights—on the mother’s side. Non Omnis Moriar is his motto. Very likely; but, on the other hand,he ’5 never really quite alive; so one can bargain with him to great advantage. Mrs. Bones. Well, I’m sure it will all b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 50
… to complain of having passed an unprurient evening.” The scene rises. The Bones FAMILY and MR. BOWLEY sitting round the fire. U17 stage, MRS. P .. TR .. CK C .. MPB .. LL chased by MR. M..RT..N H..RV..Y runsofi'R. andbarhs hershin on a chair. Mrs. P. C‘. I am not happy! I am not happy! 0 leyndyvaine, what shall I say? Mr. M H. Most people would say Damn, ma belle Mygrainel Mrs. P. C. [Aside.] If Maeterlinck gives meaname likeaheadache, will not Shaw call me simply a cough-drop? [ExiL Prompter. [Angn'ly.] The Truth! Mr. .M. H. The Truth! The Trut…
1907 · PDF PAGE 55
…S 35 Confusion of the Modality of Assertion. When the Auditor is in an inferior position as to knowledge, this ranks as a malicious lie. Mrs. G. says to Father H. in the confessional, “I have not flirted with Mr. 1.,” and lies, because (on the theory) Father H. has a right to know. [BONES z'ntery'erts, “ Flirted! Autres temps, Autres motsl You’re improving, Frater ! ” Reader replies “ Pig l ”] But she says the same words with truth to Mrs. 1., who is merely asking out of curiosity. For if she changes the subject, or is rude, it is tantamount to …
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
32 KONX OM PAX Bowley. More coffee, please. I attribute the Baby to Malkuth. Mrs. Bones, may I paint the baby bright yellow all over? Heedless of Mother’s sighs and groans He painted blue the Baby Bones, in the well-known porphyrean of the late john Keats, on whom be peace. At this stage in my career—drop that silly Babu twaddle !——I offer you the following desperate alternative, greatly honoured F rater! We will go on with the Table, or I will read you my latest glorious masterpiece entitled Amath. The Hebrew for Truth, Baby! Reflect, O bat-eye…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
…rn and exit. Boner. To continue—True! And saying “ true,” let us discuss “truth.” In the lower worlds, where are we? Take this frivolous Mrs. I. Why does she elude Mrs. 1.? From fear. Bowley. Fear is failure. Bones. More, G. H. Frater! It is the forerunner of failure. Bowley. I certainly recommend people to be without fear. Bones. The more so that in the heart of the coward virtue abideth not. Bowley. Pass thou on! Bones. 1 take in my hand page 39 of your able monograph and follow my guide Axiokersos, the Second of the Samothracian Kabeiri, to …
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
ALI SLOPER; OR, T and the falsehood thereof hath rung its sepulchral summons down the Halls that men call Time. [BONES boils ot/er. MRS. BONES strokes his marble brow. Now it hath occurred that some of the younger Adepts, the light hearted and foolish of the Great White Brotherhood, those who slip back oftenest to normal consciousness of the Universe, so that even their pure wings are soiled in the mire of sense, perception, reason, and their foul kind, some of those boys, I say, forget the Writing on the outer Veil of the Indicible Arcanum, th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
… but it’s all R. O. T. Rot. [Christmas waits outside begin {he hymn: In the hospital bed she lay Rotting away—Rotting awa-a-y! Sortie of MRS. BONES to disperse them] What I principally wish to point out is this element of contradiction in the valuable paper to which we have all I am sure listened with remarkable pleasure. [Oh/ ehuek z't.'] Was I called upon, or were you? The Chairman. Order, if you please, greatly honoured Fratres. Mr. Bones has the floor. A Voiee. What will Mrs. Bones say to that? The Chairman. [Stemba] If I have any more unsee…
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
…of the Qliphoth. Match theml the Tree of Life in Eden Bower Grows balanced perfectly from root to flower.” -—This may be why the Reverend Mrs. Grundy Called him a sodomite the other Sunday. Good! chuckled Basil, when they had done laughing. If he'd worked that out as a boy, his alleged character might have forced him to its own path. When I was in Marrakesh, they lynched a poor old man because their mosque had been defiled in some real or imaginary way (with which he had in any case nothing to do, having been paralyzed for years). The excuse was,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 64
…I am only concerned to cancel. Bowley. All right, my gay Io=I—in Kether it’s all very well. In the Ruach one must do as the Ruach does. [MRS. BONES, without, sereaming, “My spoons! My silver spoons! Where are my spoons?” Bones. Then what becomes of our Great Work? Bowley. Ignore the fool and his silly questions is as good a formula as yours. But hushl Who comes here? Enter the MYSTERIOUS MATHERS, but, failing to borrow the necessary properties, is unable to give his performance, and exit. Bones. This action does interrupt the dialogue. Bowley. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
…oured Fratres and Sorores of the Order of The Tin Sunset-— compare Charles Baudelaire our Lord !—assist me to open the temple —my mouth, Mrs. Bones—Mouth is part of body, and body is Temple (Colossians, iv, 15), you may say I need no assistance—in the Grade of Ten equals One and don't you forget it! [Readsfrom MS.] noel An essay upon Truth by the boy O.M., Member of the Order of the A:‘: A:': To the first paragraph of “Ascension Day” (dearly beloved brethren), it is written as a Fingerpost—and worthy is it to be graven with a needle upon the eye…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…ational bloomers from the unwashed Bacon of the Rev. Secularius Shake speare, and strips every button from the unsexed knickerbockers of Mrs. Lysistrata Ghoul. In a voice of thunder he proclaims a general strike among seamstresses and needle-women, button-makers and cotton- rowers, and condemns all such pus-brained pithecanthropoids to an enforced period 0 living statuary under La Milo. With a wit keener than that of a Rabelais, a Moliere and a Voltaire combined, he probes the social ulcer, and here we think he makes his one mistake; for in thi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…s this wonderful abstraction we call the British public? Before Mafeking night we knew quite well what it was. The female part of it was Mrs. Grundy, the well-known old lady in white cotton stockin , elastic-side boots, stuffy petticoats, and a grim determination to give everyone a bit of her mind. The male gart of it was an idealistic old gentleman of prolific habits with a thetic faith in the ritish constitution, and a habit of locking up the house at ten o’c ock every weekday and at half-past nine on Sunday. This British Androgyne has vanishe…