Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas --stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 54 (1929; rev. 1970), on traveling along the river Irrawaddy in Burma.
-- Aleister Crowley, (Oct 12 1875-1947), English occult writer; The Great Beast was a writer of occult lure and Black Magic rites.