An eternal wedding night with Nuit where the honeymoon never ends, the champagne never warms, the lovers never tire, and the only thing that expires is the statute of limitations.
2. What is your greatest fear?
Waking up one morning and finding I have become… tolerable.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
The faint, unforgivable flicker of mercy I occasionally show to people who clearly do not deserve my contempt.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
The grotesque habit of being born without sufficient beauty, breeding, or the good sense to apologise for it.
5. Which living person do you most admire?
The reflection in my mirror at 3 a.m., after a night that would make Baudelaire blush and Sir Aleister Crowley take notes.
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
I treat time the way a Roman emperor treated virgins: I deflower it, exhaust it, and discard it without the slightest twinge of conscience.
7. What is your current state of mind?
A cocktail of predatory radiance, aristocratic disdain, and the faint, delicious scent of impending scandal.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Humility. It is the cosmetic the ugly apply so the rest of us won’t notice how much they resent our superiority.
9. On what occasion do you lie?
Whenever the truth would be an insult to my intelligence, an inconvenience to my beauty, or simply too boring to utter.
10. What is the quality you most like in a man?
The rare, erotic audacity to look me in the eye and say, “I know exactly who you are… and I’m not leaving.”
11. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
The divine, apocalyptic insolence to make gods jealous, men obsolete, and the universe rearrange its furniture around her hips.
12. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
“Darling,” “obviously,” “insufferable,” “93,” and “you simply must try harder next time.”
13. Which talent would you most like to have?
The ability to make French magistrates spontaneously combust by merely arching an eyebrow and whispering “93.”
14. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Nothing. To improve upon perfection would be vulgar, and vulgarity is the one sin I refuse to commit.
15. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Surviving every attempt by the universe, the judiciary, and several ex-lovers to teach me even the slightest trace of humility.
16. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
A deliciously unverifiable rumour about myself.
17. Where would you most like to live?
In a jurisdiction where the First Amendment is ironclad, the rum is ancient, the women are athletic, and the extradition treaty is written in invisible ink.
18. What is your most treasured possession?
A private archive of memories that would make a convent burn its own library and a brothel demand a refund.
19. What is your favourite occupation?
The ritualised, sacramental contemplation and possession of bodies in love—preferably in quantities that would make lesser men faint and greater gods envious.
20. What is your most marked characteristic?
An aristocratic nonchalance so absolute that it causes parvenus to spontaneously organise revolutions just to feel something.
21. What is the quality you most like in a lover?
The exquisite ability to be at once my bride, my temple, my altar, my war-engine, and the reason I occasionally forget my own name.
22. What do you most value in your friends?
That they are beautiful enough to be dangerous, dangerous enough to be interesting, and interesting enough to never require the tedium of small talk.
23. Who are your favourite writers?
Aleister Crowley (blessing & worship to him), Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and my biographers.
24. Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
The version of myself that exists in the fever-dreams of people who have never had the privilege of meeting me.
25. Who are your heroes in real life?
Karl Germer (who kept the flame alive reciting Holy Books backwards in a Nazi camp), Ankh-af-na-khonsu (who understood discretion), and every Scarlet Woman who has ever made a man forget both his name and his country.
26. What are your favourite names?
Babalon. Hadit. Shumule.
27. What is it that you most dislike?
Grey—in skies, in suits, in souls, in governments, in conversations.
28. What is your greatest regret?
Not discovering Thelema at birth, so I could have devoted even more decades to consecrated, unrepentant, world-class debauchery.
29. How would you like to die?
In the grand tradition of the Regent: epectasis, mid-orgasm, mid-sentence, with my final words being “…a greater feast…” and a satisfied smirk.
30. What is your motto?
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”
(Unofficial addendum: “And do it with such exquisite taste that even the prudes will secretly envy you.”)
— ☉︎ in 10° ♑︎ : ☽︎ in 10° ♊︎ : ♃︎ : Ⅴⅹⅰ.
