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Household Gods
Aleister Crowley
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O! love you have not understood.
You have not guessed its secret food.
You have not seen its single eye;
But fear and doubt and jealousy
Have risen, and now your love is trembling
Like a mountebank dissembling
When his trick's detected. Come!
To find home we must leave home.
CRASSUS.
Starless and moonless, hidden in cloud,
The night's one flame of pearl.
ALICIA.
The bat flaps; the owl hoots aloud.
CRASSUS.
Lead on; I trust you, girl.
ALICIA.
You are bold to trust me; or, have you divined
My secret?
CRASSUS.
No; the crystal of your mind
Shows only faint disturbing images,
Things passing strange, as if enchanted seas
Kept their great swell upon it, and strange fish
Played in its oily depths. Some monstrous wish,
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Community Reviews
An odd little play…interesting word play and not entirely what I expected for a Crowley piece.
I appreciate the way in which Crowley uses language here. By no means is this a bad read, and I’d be curious how I would feel upon reading it again.
Rating: 3.75/5 stars
Read Arthur Machen instead.
As to be expected from Aleister Crowley, a short, lyrical romp through pagan imagery and double-entendres, some Greek and Roman god cameos, and an appearance by Randy Pan the Goat Boy. Something about confusing lust with love, perhaps.
Double entendres galore!
It is a comedy in the old way, it has love, sex, betrayal, gods, death and sorrow, it's not much of a spoiler to say that it ends badly.
It's written on verse and flows nicely, well worth a read.
Beware, the flute scenes are naughty
Pretty good and short enough that I'll definitely be re-reading it a few times. I usually hate reading plays, but this I could read like poetry. First Crowley piece I've read in it's entirety (I'm sure I'll be poo-pooed for that) so I can't really compare. Highly recommend to HIM fans though.
A short occultist symbol-laden play set in verse. Somewhat clumsy verse and my guess it served either to mock Yeats, or to emulate him. Both he and Crowley were members of the Hemetic Order of the Golden Dawn, so - who knows.
Essentially a sex story; a flute is played, several things are made wet, a