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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Wednesday, 25 August 1920
When I haven't been reading Fanny’s First Play—what trash! Norman Douglas on Calabria—good stuff! D. H. Lawrence—overdrawn copies of Continental realists! I have been in love with myself for writing the 'Chants before Battle' and The Stratagem and wanting to beat my own record with a new story. I want an Elm in it to drop a bough on the chief characters so as not to do poetic justice; and I want 'Colonel Pacton's Brother' for the mystery man. Let me add this to that 2 and make 5. Also, I want a spiritist milieu: 'Did you ever know any one named William? And A. C. as the Fool to make extravagant talk.
Get on then!
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