Reviewer sounds bitter and maybe needs some love

"It is the belief of Tobias Churton that a perverse 'hatred of bourgeois attitudes' is what motivated Aleister Crowley until the very end of his days.

I'm not so sure. Crowley liked his creature comforts and his zany posturing would fit in well with upper-class dilettante life. Crowley lived off family money for as long as he could and, when the inheritance expired, tried to raise funds by suing everyone for defamation of character. Such were his delusions of grandeur one of Crowley's aliases was Count Vladimir Svareff and, after graduating from Cambridge, he bought a castle near Loch Ness. There was also a villa in Sicily where Crowley presided over his orgies like a Victorian patriarch."

And, check out the masthead for the Express, for a bit of synchronistic symbolism:

If you're interested in biographies of Aleister Crowley, you may want to check out Aleister Crowley: The Biography: Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master and Spy by Tobias Churton.

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