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The party at Butterman's, with the guests as many of the personages of the Dictionary and The Orphics as the band. Ghosts appear among the guests, and Beau. He tells Rosie she mustn't let the Powerhouse take Sam, and he tells Pierce he's got to fix the way the world has become. Lost in the castle, Pierce mistakes the ghost of Sandy Kraft for a ( Read more... )

We read entries from the Dictionary with Pierce, who remembers the whole episode with Bobbie. Rosie comes by to visit and invites him over to Arcady. She tells him how she lost custody of Sam, sympathizes for his loss of Rose. They drink together as Pierce describes his amor heroes. Rosie reveals she slept with Rose, and shortly after takes Pierce ( Read more... )

While Rosie visits her lawyer, Pierce babysitting for Sam reads her some Little Enosh. Mike talks to Ray Honeybeare about Sam, who condemns imagination as magic and speaks of Simon Magus (Mike wondering if Ray got his history from "The Silver Chalice".) Sam, supposed to be napping, plays with Dee's shewstone that she has hidden in her backpack ( Read more... )

Didn't expect to finish this project, but it was a rather disappointing Apocalypse so here I am at it again ( Read more... )

Pierce tries to put the moves on Rose in the Winterhalter's house, but she is in no mood. They fight. The make-up sex is excellent, but Rose won't say "I love you" back to him in the morning. He agrees to come to Conurbana to attend a Powerhouse event with her ( Read more... )

Pierce goes to visit the pastor of the Danish Brethren to ask her opinion on the Powerhouse. She points out that many religious movements are seen as heretical cults when they are new, including her own. Pierce goes on to the library and looks it up in a couple of reference books, scaring himself with what he reads. He considers going to see Beau, ( Read more... )

Jan the werewolf tells his tale, and Doctor Dee realizes he is no melancholic. He cannot cure him, but wishes to save him from the Emperor's collection. Jan goes out to the night battle, passing through a carnivalesque procession and on to the land of the dead. There he finds only one witch, and himself the only wolf. Where have they all gone? Dee ( Read more... )

So the Ars-Autoamatoria is another of Crowley's brilliant little inventions. When looking it up on Google to be sure, I discovered these reviews of the first three Aegypt novels that were so good I couldn't write for a week. Onward ( Read more... )

A dinner of lamb at the Faraway Lodge. Spofford tells of the modern werewolves his vet buddies have been seeing and his plans to go with Cliff to check it out. Rosie gathers rosehips outside as Pierce gives a little naked-eye astronomy lesson to Val and describes the soul's journey through the spheres. Late that night, Rose sneaks in for a booty ( Read more... )