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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:13:40 +0000
From: Adam Piette <A.Piette-AT-englit.arts.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Mina Loy and the QHU


Might QHU be an eccentric spelling of KHU, the astral body according 
to the Egyptian Book of the Dead (Alisteir Crowley and all that)? The 
reference to the 'green-lit glow-worm' and rays (in 'raylessness') 
might suggest something of the sort.

Adam Piette
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Department of English Literature
University of Glasgow
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Tel: 0141 330 4650
Dept. fax: 0141 330 4601
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