Worthwhile Reading

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“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. . . . The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”

―Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography, 1969

• Editorial Comment: We need more egotistical charlatans, hucksters, ceremonial magicians and mountaineers in public life.


PeezPix by Ted Pease

The Coming Echium












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