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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 5 July 1943
[I Ching hexagram] Thung Xan-13.
£24.14.6 from Saturnus [Karl Germer].
“Poems” from Grady [Grady McMurtry].
Delysia c/o Dept of Natl Service Enternt. 48, Sharir(?) Kasr-el-Nil El Kabirah.
12 1/2 C.H.C. [Dr. C.H. Crawshaw] My poor old prostate—for which I never took any gold medals!—is hardly enlarged at all!! At my age, wonderful.
Another incredible incident. At
fork of Richmond Hill & Petersham Road I was accosted by an
oldish
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with another & a ditto man. She asked the way
to the river. I pointed: “Just down there & you come to the
bridge”. She wagged her head sagely: “No, it’s the other
side” and waved at Barnes! So I: “Perhaps you’ll find it on
top of the hill. That’s where rivers usually are, isn’t it?”
That seemed good sense to her: and up the hill they plodded.
Spread of Physical Geography!