Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Tuesday, 24 May 1938

 

 

[I Ching Hexagram] 57.

     

[coloured photo of Mattie Pickett sitting on a stool: 16 Jul. '37]

     

1 1/2 12 Wimpole St. Maxwell Ellis.

     

Cleared Pingala[1] of Polyps [I Ching Hexagram] (line 3).

     

Sleep & tea with Pam.

     

7.30 Eve [Brachenburg].

     

Gregory & his dull flat-faced bitch.

     

Letter from Culling [Louis Culling] ? [I Ching Hexagram] line 5.

     

Went home early, bored [I Ching Hexagram] (line 6).

 

 

1—Crowley's nickname for his right nostril.  He suffered from severe polyps in his nose which, from time to time, needed to be surgically removed.

 

 

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