I'll pass on the generous giveaway. Just wanted to say happy birthday!
"Beware.
Easily trips the big word 'dare.'
Each man's an Oedipus,* that thinks
He hath the four powers of the Sphinx,
Will, Courage, Knowledge, Silence. Son,
Even the adepts scarce win to one!
Thy Thoughts - they fall like rotten fruits.
But to destroy the power that makes
These thoughts - thy Self? A man it takes
To tear his soul up by the roots.
This is the mandrake fable, boy!"
A. Crowley from "Aha!"
*Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx: "What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three in the evening?"
To this Oedipus replies, "Man" (who crawls on all fours as an infant, walks upright later, and needs a walking stick in old age).