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The Banned Lecture
Text based on the first edition of The Banned Lecture published 3 February 1930.
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The Banned Lecture
The Banned Lecture GILLES de RAIS to have been delivered before The Oxford University Poetry Society By ALEISTER CROWLEY on the Evening of Monday February 3rd, 1930 PRICE SIX PENCE Pablidby PR. STEPHENSEN, 41, MUSEUM ST, LONDON, WiC
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The Banned Lecture
…of the great Aldous Huxleyonce found himself threatened by a predicament similar to that in which I stand tonight. He had been asked to lecture a distinguished group of people. What bothered him was this : what assumption was he to make about the existing knowledge of the audience ? He adopted the sensible course of asking the advice of an old hand at the game ; and was told You must do one of two things. You may assume that they know everything, or that they know nothing. Thomas Henry thought it over, and decided that he would assume that …
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The Banned Lecture
…er worthy of all acceptation in a university like Oxford, where, I understand, the besetting sin of the inmates is lec- turing and being lectured, but discussions are always apt to turn out to be amusing, especially if conducted with blackthorns or shotguns, where as lecturing is merely an attempt, foredoomed to failure, to com- municate knowledge which usually the lecturer does not possess. I am sure that we all recognize that an attempt of this kind is impossible in nature. No ! I am not proposing to inflict upon you my celebrated discourse o…
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