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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