Well fuck my shark and call me a bitch, this is pretty good

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Well fuck my shark and call me a bitch, this is pretty good so far! I'm almost done marathoning part I.

So far I've got:

the notion of Satan and evil connected with the sea, which later connect with Lavey's Satanic Bible and Lovecraft I guess.

constant rhyme of animal-types, glow-worms becoming whales, large ones, small ones, sea ones, land ones.

vague reference to and overthrowing of the sisyphean myth

reading same prompted me to look up Dali's illustrations: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/23590

the mere mention of a "glow worm" prompts me to wonder whether Crowley was aware of the work. An early selection in Crowley's equally cryptic Book of Lies is structured around one "Glow Worm" (bit number 11).

I was skeptical about a prose poem, but the thing really does loop back on itself quite a lot over these few thirty pages, and with rhythmic repetition. nails mentioned in one violent place are recalled in different context a few pages later. Elements repeat. Again, even Crowley later has a short poem about fingernails, which heightens my suspicion.