A new week

Bad things about going to the charity shop: girl who works there, and her brother who's a new recruit, keep trying to get me to talk. "Draw me out of my shell", as she puts it.

Good thing: people are too stupid for it to be possible to sell decent books, so I get them for free. I see they have the Silmarillion, Tom Bower's book about Tiny Rowland/LonRho and a Marilyn Monroe book by Anthony Sommers, of JFK assassination fame.

I could do with some new books anyway. I've just finished "The Islamist" by Ed Husain and "Murder in Samarkand" by Craig Murray. Pity I don't have more time to read now.

Christians are not distinguished from the rest of mankind either in locality
or in speech or in customs. For they dwell not somewhere in cities of their own,
neither do they use some different language... . But while they dwell in cities
of Greeks and barbarians as the lot of each is cast, and follow the native
customs in dress and food and the other arrangements of life, yet the
Constitution of their own citizen­ship, which they set forth, is marvelous,
and confessedly contradicts expectation. They dwell in their own countries, but
only as sojourners; they bear their share in all things as citizens, and they
endure all hardships as strangers. Every foreign country is a fatherland to
them, and every fatherland is foreign. They marry like all other men and they
beget chil­dren; but they do not cast away their offspring. They have their
meals in common, but not their wives. They find themselves in the flesh, and yet
they live not after the flesh. Their exis­tence is on earth, but their
citizenship is in heaven. They obey the established laws, and they surpass the
laws in their own lives.”
-- Henry Melville Gwatkin, Selections from Early
Christian Writers

Crowley: We should not protect the weak and vicious from the results of their own inferiority.

I have read a bit of a book, I won't be reading more of it, something to do with fascism. Makes out that the Biblical warnings about menstruating women are foolish and misogynistic. I direct you to the XI degree of the Typhonian OTO, the Eye of Horus.

Too hot for typing.