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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 7 January 1938
[I Ching Hexagram] 35.
Day [Arthur Day] answered: friendly but uncomprehending.
Grove [Edward Grove]. C.R. [Café Royal] 1.15 Upstairs—no room.
To Kempinsky [restaurant]. A.1. lunch.
Saw "Panay" film[1]—atrocious.
5 Bobby [Barfoot]. Manr. Pl.(?) Opus[2] really very good work to distribute AL [The Equinox of the Gods].
1—This refers to a film about the USS Panay incident, a Japanese attack on the American gunboat Panay while it was anchored in the Yangtze River outside Nanking, China on 12 December 1937. 2—Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.
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