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Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism
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Keith (kgf0) | 377 comments http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/846383 was first published in the scholarly volume linked, and otherwise remains buried in Collection #17 of the Morris Library at SIU Carbondale.

Unfortunately, Crowley was a prolific author, and has more works than can appear in the drop-down list of books on the Add a Quote page (223 against a limit of 200, even after my best attempts to combine editions), so I was unable to attach this quote to its proper source.

Is there some back-end work-around for this, accessible only to those with better access privileges than super-librarians? If so, could someone do that? It seems generally bad not to cite one's sources, and in fact that one of the things I tend to focus on fixing when I have time.

Please and thank you.


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rivka | 45177 comments Mod
It's actually because he's not the primary author of that work, not because of the number of his works. I am not aware of any way to link a work to a quote for a non-primary author.


Keith (kgf0) | 377 comments I add quote links for non-primary authors all the time. that is, in fact, a large part of the reason why I bother adding the other authors on all my books. This is the first such failure I've encountered.


Keith (kgf0) | 377 comments If you look at http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/... you'll see that most of the quotes ate linked to non-primary authors.


message 5: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Huh. Pretty sure that didn't used to be possible. Cool!


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