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Mary Butts Diary Entry Wednesday, 31 August 1921
Same symbol. Very [illegible] saw endless landscape and finally a door to a vault—Then a kind of unicorn—with a white ivory rhinoceros horn, and gold quill.
Beast pleased, said it was a symbol of a grade of adept—(Reversatie.)
Later—much better—very doped heroin.
On to top of a glacier—very high up—black [illegible] adepts, culling out the lid of a huge heart-shaped box of ice. They split the lid, but they would not let me look inside. I quit the air and the chill brilliance. and saw the green, and the white of the snow, and strong blue shadows.
Then save one who stood quiet beside me—behind, look we down below into a bedroom in a house, a small back bedroom—dirty green and grey, with every conventionally hideous object, and in it a faded, mean, ugly, woman in a green dress—a triply soured virgin. The person at my shoulder told me to understand the connection between that Italian on the mountain top, and the woman, and the room.
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