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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 6 December 1920
10.15 p.m. After an effort, I have ended my Hymn to Opium.
10.55 p.m. A lexicographer is one who explains words in terms of other words. So of course, ultimately, is a writer. This involves the assumption that there are some words whose meaning does not have to be explained. Otherwise one gets merely a series of indeterminate equations. But how do any words become known? If not explained in other words, they are explained by gestures, such, for example, as pointing. These gestures are really words in another form. All knowledge is therefore impossible. It merely consists in a series of propositions about x, y, and z, statements of relations between unknown and unknowable things.
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