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Arnold Bennett Diary Entry Tuesday, 26 April 1904
In response to a telegram I went to lunch with Aleister Crowley and his wife [Rose Kelly] (Kelly's [Gerald Kelly] sister) today at Paillard's. He had been made a "Khan" in the East, and was wearing a heavily jewelled red waistcoat and the largest ring I ever saw on a human hand. I rather liked him. He said some brain specialist had told him that what made a great brain was not the number of facts or ideas known, but the number of facts or ideas co-ordinated and correlated. I said, "Of course." Talking about Beardsley, when I said that people had said they had met him and seen him in the flesh after his death, he said he knew a man who had met Oscar Wilde in the Pyrenees while Oscar was in prison.
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