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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Tuesday, 19 October 1937
[I Ching hexagram] XXXII.
Refused D.[aily] Herald £100.
The drunken blackguard Swift[1] is dead. (N.B. The sot's swinish injustice gave me the best thing that ever happened: Deidre [Patricia MacAlpine] & Ataturk [Aleister Ataturk]!)
Lummer & Waleyne dinner with me & Evelyn.
Palethorpe rang up
1—Mr. Justice Swift was the judge who presided over Crowley's libel suit against Nina Hamnett and the printers/publishers of her book Laughing Torso. The judge stated at the end of the trial thet "Never have I heard such dreadful, horrible, blasphemous, abominable stuff as that produced by a man describing himself as the greatest living poet."
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