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Jan. 10th, 2008 12:58 amI knew that Crowley worked for British Intelligence and was rumored to be in MI6 and that he knew Ian Fleming, but I was not aware that Crowley inspired the character Le Chiffre in his James Bond novel Casino Royale.
Aleister was also friendly with W. Somerset Maugham, who used Crowley as the basis for Oliver Haddo in The Magician. Maugham said, "Crowley recognized himself in the creature of my invention, for such it was, and wrote a full-page review of the novel in Vanity Fair, which he signed 'Oliver Haddo'. I did not read it, and wish now that I had. I daresay it was a pretty piece of vituperation, but probably, like his poems, intolerably verbose."
Aleister was also friendly with W. Somerset Maugham, who used Crowley as the basis for Oliver Haddo in The Magician. Maugham said, "Crowley recognized himself in the creature of my invention, for such it was, and wrote a full-page review of the novel in Vanity Fair, which he signed 'Oliver Haddo'. I did not read it, and wish now that I had. I daresay it was a pretty piece of vituperation, but probably, like his poems, intolerably verbose."
