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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