| X. 12. | Verlaine! Zola! — These are the vampires that suck out the virtue from our young people, the foreign corrupters of our purer manners! | |
| XII. 7. | Attis—Abelard. — 'Thirst' here clearly means unhallowed lust, since Attis and Abelard were both mutilated persons. | |
| XIV. 13. 14. | What mad megalomania! | |
| THE THAUMATURGE | ||
| I. 1. | Horrible blasphemy of this adaptation of Job to their vile purposes! | |
| IV. 14. | Ten bob. — Vulgarity must always go with wickedness. Christ is not only a saving but a refining influence. | |
| V. 6. | Wolf's tail. — The Zodiacal Light, seen before dawn. | |
| XIV. | I suppose that such a mixture of ribaldry, blasphemy, vulgarity, and obscenity, as this series of sonnets has never been known. But worse is to follow! | |
| THE BLACK MASS | ||
| XI. 6. | A reference to the Bacchae of Euripides. | |
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