Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Wednesday, 4 November 1931
The mystery of the Talkies is this. The trouble with the silent screen was the sub-titles. We wanted to suppress them. Now the dialogue is unlimited sub-titles!
Bill [Bertha Busch] took my Templar Ring for an engagement ring—and promptly seduced me in our bath. Opus[1] 60. Initiation. She then got perfectly beastly drunk, and made me very unhappy.
Schiffers [Margo and Marcellus] in P.M.
Hamilton [Gerald Hamilton] to come at 7.
Henry Bender at 9. Krako [Jacques Krako]. And then Maentz. So we began all over again.
1—Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.
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