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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 27 January 1924
A bad night. Called in Dr Ducasse.
Idea for a Magnum Opus—a complete picture of the Thelemic Society. (Ethel [Ether]).
Ethel. Short Story.
[The following appears in the handwriting of Norman Mudd]
Idea for a short story.
Story opens with a fashionable eccentric who has dressed for dinner learning over phone that his hostess is ill and dinner is off. He decides to dine at a restaurant etc. Walking, his attention is arrested by a man selling matches whom he remembers as Oscar Wilde. He gets the man’s story at dinner and takes up his case. Fortified in every respect the man calls on an actor-manager with one of his plays.
The point is that the recognition of the man by the eccentric was a very rare accident. The actor-manager does not know the man’s name, He has been forgotten by all but a very few of a small set of a particular period.
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