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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 20 January 1938
[I Ching Hexagram] 28.
Note on the Crooked Outfit in my big libel action.[1]
[Judge Justice] Swift. Drank himself to death.[1]
Martin O'Connor: Dead.[1]
Edmund ditto: Fugitive from Justice.[1]
W. Cooper Hobbs: On trial for forgery.[1]
Betty May: Wanted by police. Very just 28.[1]
Drink with Bobby [Barfoot] [I Ching Hexagram] lines 2 & 5.
Good chess [I Ching Hexagram] line 4 fatal idiocy v. Metropolitan [I Ching Hexagram] line 6.
Began Maugham's [Somerset Maugham] Summing-up pp. 210-211 has 1st personal pronoun 72 times! about 14% of all words used.
1—Refers to individuals involved in Crowley's disastrous libel suit he brought against Nina Hamnett and her publisher/printer for her book Laughing Torso.
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