The curse of Roper

The dying Aleister Crowley is supposed to have cursed Hastings, or in some tellings of the story, Eastbourne, which explains a lot. A dreadful fate awaits any library that rejects a job application from me. Senate House , or to give it its more formal title, the University of London Research Library Services, were unwise enough to do this. They found themselves the subject of scathing letters in the Times Literary Supplement. This, on its own could have been coincidence. The national library, the British Library, whose unwritten rider on job advertisements seems to be 'librarians need not apply', also rejected my applications, and often come in for stick, but the BLis the library we all love to hate, so I have never read any great significance into it. Now, once more in the TLS, I see that the London Library, who also lacked the vision to employ me, are now being lambasted for an 80% subscription increase, presumably as their new extension has bled their reserves dry.
Future employers might like to think hard before rejecting me.

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