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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Wednesday, 3 March 1920
7.00 a.m. circa. Opus[1]
XV.
Ninette [Ninette Shumway], p.v.n.[2]
Opus excellent. Elixir strong and rich. Object: dedication
of this
10.00 p.m. A shipwreck! A young man and a girl scrambled on to an iceberg. He tried to insult her, but it is not easy when one is sitting on the ice. Ultimately he dropped it, and exclaimed to the iceberg: ‘All right! Do your darndest! I'll get this thing stiff, if it has to be frozen stiff.’
10.00 p.m. to 12.00 p.m. Opera[1] XVI-XVII, Ninette and Ethel [Ether]. Object: Plain [pleasure]. Opus, perfectly marvellous. Elixir AI. Ethel behaved splendidly. I realized every detail of the orgasm, also all the trains of thought that connect one’s incoherent cries. I wish I could get it all down. I also got every detail of the proof that laughter is a sublimated orgasm.
1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.] 2—[Per vas nefandum. By the unmentionable vessel, i.e. anal intercourse.] 3—[Dedication of the Virgin to Pan.]
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