City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley Baker Phil
A work that combines biography and pyschogeography to trace Aleister Crowley's life in London.I dreamed I was paying a visit to London, Aleister Crowley wrote in Italy, continuing, It was a vivid,…
Specifikacia City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley Baker Phil
A work that combines biography and pyschogeography to trace Aleister Crowley's life in London.I dreamed I was paying a visit to London, Aleister Crowley wrote in Italy, continuing, It was a vivid, long, coherent, detailed affair of several days, with so much incident that it would make a good-sized volume. Crowley had a love-hate relationship with London, but the city was where he spent much of his adult life, and it was the capital of the culture that created him: Crowley was a post-decadent with deviant Victorian roots in the cultural ferment of the 1890s and the magical revival of the Golden Dawn.Not a walking guide, although many routes could be pieced together from its pages, this is a biography by sites. A fusion of life-writing with psychogeography, steeped in London's social history from Victoria to the Blitz, it draws extensively on unpublished material and