On Mar 24, 3:56*pm, Offramp wrote:
In 1917 the British chess player Aleister Crowley published a novel. I
have just started reading it.

That's an, err, unconventional way to describe Mr Crowley...

cf 'in 1917 the German artist Adolf Hitler was injured in the Battle
of the Somme'.

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