A CIGAR is like a wife!
Put it to your lips, and light it;
When you’ve learnt to do it right, it
Adds a certain zest to life.
Mind you keep on puffing it,
Or it’s out, and can’t be lit.
Ah, the aroma! Ah, the glow!
Will you have one? Thank you, No.
- Aleister Crowley, Vanity Fair January, 1916
Fans of Aleister Crowley are in for a treat with Volume 4 of the Aleister Crowley Collection.
Included in this volume are the series of articles Crowley penned for Vanity Fair during the Great War. Subject matter ranges from ‘On The Management of Blondes’ to Japanese verse, Polo and various other arcane matters. All delivered with the same non-PC, inimitable devil-may-care wit one expects from ‘The Wickedest Man Alive.’
All 17 Vanity Fair pieces are included here:
Bernard Shaw on Self-Effacement
Aleister Crowley: Mystic and Mountain Climber
Eight Vampire Women
The Hokku – A New Verse Form
A Hindu at the Polo Grounds
Colloque Sentimental
With Muted Strings
The Prize Winners of the Hokku Contest
Six Little Poems In Prose
The Nonsense About Vers Libre
Three Great Hoaxes of the War
Anna of Havana
To A Brunette
Ratan Devi: Indian Singer
On The Management of Blondes
The Origin of the Game of Pirate Bridge
What’s Wrong with the Movies?
*Fully illustrated.
*Special low-price.
