A brief skimming offers some promise of pleasant diversion. There is a long chapter on Francis Dashwood and his abbey doings, much meatier than anything found in Eric Towers' so-called biography - including a description of the Earl of Sandwich's characteristic lope: "as though he were trying to walk both sides of the street at the same time". There is Crowley and his rancid love-ins at his own abbey, where his five year old son, a precociously impertinent drug addict, will, as "beast number two" get what he wants and right now "or else."

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Book Description: Bonanza, NY, 1960. "B" on copyright page of unknown significance. 8vo, 247pp. Light and orange cloth.