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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 10 January 1924
Jupiter.
Current going strong again!
Lunch with Aimée [Aimée Gourand].
Met Schroeder—T.S.F. [French radio] expert—and his Banker. Oh joy! Oh jam! Oh yum! Well—I hope it will ‘jell’.
Wrote to Lea [Leah Hirsig] at Cefalu—my desperate mania of last night having somehow worked her release from Tunis. I’m happy at last—to think she’s with her own again. Now to work to set her with me in 6 weeks from now.
Strange Meals My cheapest dinner 5 courses 5 c Mex wayside inn betw[een] Guadalajara and Pacific Coast.
My longest dinner banquet given by Mandarin of Yung Chang. Noon to midnight (Farts and belches) (Longest in another sense—a 22 foot rat-snake!)
My best dinner. Half-warm half cooked Tibetan Mutton at Rdokass.
My “heaviest” dinner. Buffalo steak and kidney cut and cooked on the spot.
Parrot. Monkey. “Rosepetal confiture”.
Crowley mixed grill “Lazarus come forth!” Pavots d’Armour Coo-Coo. In a saucer of caviar, a Croute lined with Foie Gras enclosing Plover’s Egg: on top sliced Beche-de-Mer: crowled with a chrysanthemum.
Weird Drinks “Kwass—the sigil of the moujik—confused, muddy, sour, chill, fiery and intoxicating—the soul of latent madness and of sacred crime.” Cocktail Boer. Swiss Soup. Saki. Sfax ‘Rhum’. Benzine (my Prohibition night party) Crowley Cups (I, II, and III) “Kubla Khan” (I and II) Tibetan tea with salt and butter. Brick tea – aperitive = Castor Oil. Puppy-dog soup. Vodka. Corn whisky. Pulque Soma. Anhalonium Lewinii. Arraq. The Black Drink of Florida. Calabar Bean.
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