Alicia Monologue from Household Gods: A Comedy

From Household Gods: A Comedy by Aleister Crowley

female · philosophical · 52 sec

O marvellous nation! Vanity, dullness, slobber, and quotation! (CRASSUS: Why do you love me if you scorn me so?) Why, did I say I loved you? I say no. (CRASSUS: Why do you make love?) To beguile the hour; To crown my rose-wreath with a greener flower' To do my master's bidding, that's to give Life to yourself, who only think you live. But listen! Have you seen the nine waves roll Monotonous upon the shoal, Rising and falling like a maiden asleep; Then with a lift and a leap The ninth wave curls, and breaks upon the beach, And rushes up it, swallowing the sand? I am that ocean.... Now, you understand?

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