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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 17
… set of instruments very ill-adapted to the purpose. But, anyway, he called it a poem, and the title was something to do with the old woman of Berkeley and who rode behind her. The person who rode behind her was Mr. Montague Summers friend, the Devil. What she actually did to merit this favour is to me rather obscure, because I have forgotten the whole beastly thing. But I do remem- ber two lines, because I am in the same line of business myself. I have candles made of infants fat, I have feasted on rifled graves. Southey was an ambitious ma…
1930 · PDF PAGE 3
…ose in his idiom un- polished Ye burn now a Goose: there succeeds mea Swan Ye shall find quench your fire ! Fust. I forsee such a man. (Browning.)
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…cial position, and that the wicked president had blackmailed them out of vast sums. You see, the people for whom this dear young gentle- man was writing all get sexually excited by pictures of young women, and also by any statement about large sums of money. For they immediately have a wish phantasmif they had large sums themselves, what terrible fellows they could be. In the Middle Ages, the art of exciting the people was not very different. The Jew had always an immense hoard of ill-gotten wealth, and of course every penny that was exacted b…
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
… as nonsense. It is satisfied that nobody can disprove it any more than they can prove it. Take a concrete example. A nice young gentle- man the other day wanted (very properly) to earn his living, and not being peculiarly endowed by Nature in the matter of original invention, he thought he might make a story out of the idea of a Suicide Club. In this he was evidently correct. Robert Louis Stevenson had in fact proved the point. So he took Stevensons story and transferred it to Germany, and drivelled on about the ace of spades, and quoted stat…