Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 23 November 1945
[I Ching hexagram] Wu Wang-25.
Perique [tobacco] came (£3.3.11).
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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