Tales of the Beast
In his article on Wyndham Lewis’s novel [], Richard George said he was not sure if Lewis ever met Aleister Crowley. Perhaps a meeting would not have been to Lewis’s advantage. Here is ‘The Great Beast’ from a 1919 edition of (text version available on-line): “Mr Wyndham Lewis was living some few years ago on the charity of a young lady, the admired and honoured friend of many artists. She had taken compassion on him, because he told her that he wrote poetry – an excusable falsehood. Perhaps he even believed
