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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Wednesday, 9 January 1924
Reaction—everything went wrong Bar a free drink for winning at chess from Van Leer.
[On over-page:]
The Latin Quarter.
A. 1902 The Aristocratic British Colony. Two sets of Americans. Decent class desc.[?] Rodin [Auguste Rodin]—Carriere—Theuslow[?]—Gauguin. H James in “Form Meeting” [Four?] —Van Gogh—O’conor—J.W. Morrice—Paul Bartlett—others Nina [Nina Hamnett]. Stanlaws[?] The Chat Blanc.
B. 1904 Arnold Bennett. W.S. Maugham “Buried Alive” “The Magician”. Nina as Queen. Dumesnil[?]—Bourgeois invasion.
C. 1908 Euphemia. Victor Neuburg. Henner-Skene. Fenella Lovell. Booth. Maxwell. Brenner. Jaja [Jane Chéron] The [illegible] artist”! Debacle—the spirit fled. Nina dethroned and exiled—married!
D. 1920 War results. Invasion of Huns. Dirt Ill manners. Mobs. No work. Crazy theories. Criques. Absinthe replaced by poisons that burn holes in marble tables—in the name of Temperance. No personalities: but artificial freaks. Augustus John. Epstein [Jacob Epstein].
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