Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Friday, 16 December 1938

 

 

[I Ching Hexagram] 4.

     

Started analysis Yi King.

     

Pearl [Pearl Brooksmith] in A.M., couldn't stay to lunch.

     

Couldn't get substitute.

     

Pat & Ann no good for P.M.

     

Wired Catherine [Catherine Falconer], who came. FitzGerald [Edward Noel Fitzgerald] too. Curried cockels in chicken fat with ginger syrup.

     

Knife slipped in C.[atherine]'s hand & got me deep in face just above jawbone (See [I Ching Hexagram] line 6!). Bled very profusely. Cosgrove came & dressed wound.

 

 

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