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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 7 April 1907
"The Awkward Squad"
The mutineers would be a good name for a puzzle in which one big shot should be used to chase and collect several small shot. Thus:
Let the small shot be cubes (or eggs!)
[Caption:] Guard room
Wooden or cardboard sides
Glass top
Dimensions 5" x 6"
Reset puzzle by inverting box
The lines represent ridges in the tin floor. The circles are little pillars awkward to steer past. The black dots are holes big enough to let the "privates" escape, but too small for the "sergeants." There are 8 privates and 4 sergeants. Puzzle: to collect all in the guard room.
The big black hole lets sergeants through.
Model—of soft wax. Fusable metal cast from this. Mould ridges as vents, columns as holes, holes as mounds.
Went to London and met Claude.
Met 3 hunchbacks during the day. Lord have mercy upon us!
O Lord, how excellent are thy gifts unto the children of men!
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