Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Friday, 23 November 1945

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] Wu Wang-25.

     

Perique [tobacco] came (£3.3.11).

     

[Heroin] d[itt]o. £1.9.6 d[itt]o.

     

Chits from L.U.W. [Louis Wilkinson] ans[were]d. Curwen [David Curwen] ans[were]d.

     

Miss Kay Dick [Kathleen Elsie Dick] 1 Hillfield Court NW3 for Magd Blair [The Testament of Magdalen Blair].

     

Chess v.[ersus] dud 2-0 but good fun (a) breaking a block (b) Fegatello.[1]

 

 

1—The Fried Liver Attack, also called the Fegatello Attack (named after an Italian idiom meaning "dead as a piece of liver"), is a chess opening. This opening is a variation of the Two Knights Defense in which White sacrifices a knight for an attack on Black's king.

 

 

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