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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 2 September 1923
Die Sol
1.11 a.m. [Question] How shall we handle matter of T.[unisia] P.[alace] H.[otel]?
Sun/Water Khwei [I Ching Hexagram] XXXVIII
The matter will be arranged all right.
Line 1. Insist on our point of view that in accepting the draft he is bound to credit us as if with cash. See Tourniaire. [Line] 2. Explain matter to Patron. [Line] 3. Our proposed departure must be postponed for the present. [Line] 4. The intervention of a friend may be of use. [Line] 5. There should be no great difficulty in settling the matter. [Line] 6. The trouble is due to scandal & crazy fancies.
This point had better be cleared up & Tourniaire converted into a really sympathetic type. We should not abandon the subject until that is done. When it is we can proceed with our original plans if we choose. Should we do so, the money will come in from somewhere.
9.04 a.m. Big Lion [Crowley] has asked Lala [Leah Hirsig] to record the following notes on his dream of last night [Alostrael's [Leah Hirsig] handwriting].
Royalty, people I have known at all times of my life, bits of it recognizably from the events of yesterday. Instance: Bee hives hurtling through the air which is connected with something I saw in a newspaper about Germany during the War in Tanganyika who cultivated bees to sting the British troops. In my dream they were fired by battleships.
There are certain things that come into a dream only to explain other things & then disappear.
9.30 p.m. This a.m. read of the Bombardment of Corfu, killing some dozen or more Armenian children-refugees-in revenge for the murder of some Wop fools by some persons unknown some 1500 miles away! What utter fools-as well as blackguards-statesmen are!
Spent all day writing 6 sonnets (& some other verse) on the atrocity.
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