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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 10 October 1921
Feeling slightly less cheap. Messed about most of the day.
BOOKS ARRIVED FROM PARIS! ! ! Only 7 months on the way.
10.15 P.M. Reading "The Monkey's Paw" again; got an idea of a yarn. There is some 3-wish talisman; its new owner thinks of "Vice Versa" and the German fable—he decides to imitate Solomon and make his first wish Wisdom. The result is somehow more appalling than anything else could be; yet the other two wishes, logically indeed, make things even more ghastlier.
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