Jane Wolfe Diary Entry

Tuesday, 5 April 1921

 

     

 

 

 

Good sleep. Last two opium nights cat naps only.

 

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Genesthai [C. F. Russell] getting Temple seats from wine room. Lea [Leah Hirsig] walks into wine room and says: “I think we would better dust those in here.”

 

Two days ago, in dining room, Genesthai is troubled about the disposition of something. Lea says: “We want that (or them) put “so and so.

 

Of course, in both cases she may have been soliloquizing, so let her R.I.P.

 

Funny about the room proposition.

 

A short time ago the question of remaining here or returning to Umbilicus entered my thought. I debated and could not come to a conclusion—it seemed both houses have advantages, both disadvantages.

 

Now comes A.C.’s letter “Sullivans in Jane’s old room.” Lea says this means the typing room. I thought Umbilicus, and I find my decision based on two reasons:

 

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1. When I left for the Umbilicus I left so completely I could not use the possessive about anything in the Abbey—nothing there ever had been mine. And,

 

2. I found I had been hoping to be assigned to peasants’ room! Being isolated from everything and everybody.

 

 

Comment(s) by Aleister Crowley

1—Oath of Silence?

2—Right.

 

 

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