|
Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 31 December 1923
Die Luna
Late at Marseille. Woke with idea “abstruction” etc. Involves my settling down at Nice.
11.10 p.m. At Hotel Terminus Nice
(Room 11 for 34
Well, what of the year? It has been so full that I can hardly summon courage to look over it. Sickness—Raoul’s [Raoul Loveday] death—vomit of slime—universal betrayal—acquisition of O.P.V. [Norman Mudd], V et L. [Adam Murray] etc.—expulsion [from Italy—Hag [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley]—A.I. [Eddie Saayman]—LXV comment—began 777 new Ed[itio]n—Book of Oaths—Nefta sonnets—Comment D—La Marsa—El Djerid—oh it has been a year of many months! I will not take Omens—I rely on Aiwass to instruct me directly by waking me from sleep, as He has done of late.
|
It was really an
hurricane: no blame to me that I was sick! Sat down to
dinner Brasserie de la Marne with Francs and 331.35—more
than I had to start up the Hudson to
Esopus [