Who were Joan Didion and Aleister Crowley?
Aleister Crowley ( ; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer.
Title: Aleister Crowley
Passage: Aleister Crowley ( ; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer.  He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century.  A prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his life.
Title: Joan Didion
Passage: Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism.  Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation.  A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.
Title: Blue Nights
Passage: Blue Nights is a memoir written by Joan Didion first published in 2011.  It is an account of the death of her daughter, Quintana, who died in 2005 at age 39.  Didion also discusses her own feelings on parenthood and aging.  The title refers to certain times in the "summer solstice [...] when the twilights turn long and blue."  "Blue Nights" is notable for its "nihilistic" attitude towards grief as Didion offers little understanding or explanation of her daughter's death.  Writing for "The New York Review of Books", Cathleen Schine said,
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