“There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.”
Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law
III:74.
The Book of the Law (1904)
“Under the midnight sun, despair acquires the intensity of sex, insomnia the vehemence of art.”
— James K. Morrow, book Towing Jehovah
Source: Towing Jehovah (1994), Chapter 12, “Father” (p. 337)
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