Name: City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley
Brand: Phil Baker

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9781913689322

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Paperback

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Limited edition

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2022-07-12

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Phil Baker

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London

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Strange Attractor

A record label born in Olympia, WA and relocated to Portland, OR in March 2002. Strange Attractor is inspired by and strives to document challenging, "out" music.

Originally a radio program called "Strange Attractors" on Olympia 89.3 FM Community Radio, the label splintered off to become Strange Attractors Audio House.

With a focus on capturing unique and unconventional sounds, Strange Attractor is dedicated to showcasing music that pushes boundaries and challenges traditional genres.

A work that combines biography and psychogeography 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with psychogeography, steeped in London's social history from Victoria to the Blitz, it draws extensively on unpublished material and offers an exceptionally intimate picture of the Great Beast. We follow Crowley as he searches for prostitutes in Hyde Park and Pimlico, drinks absinthe and eats Chinese food in Soho, and find himself down on his luck in Paddington Green--and never quite losing sight of the illumination that drove him: the abiding rapture, he wrote in his diary, which makes a 'bus in the street sound like an angel choir!

City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley

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