Wilfred Talbot Smith Diary Entry

Saturday, 10 July 1943

I glanced at it [Liber CXXXII (132)] when received, leaves me cold. Am I supposed to take this seriously? Just as likely to an opposite tirade tomorrow. This accounts for Jane [Jane Wolfe] being all on my side now as Helen [Helen Parsons] wrote; I guessed something had been received by her of a more complimentary nature. I don't imagine anything like this. Helen of course did say they had been reading a comment on Liber CXXXII, and I looked through Equinox X and the Blue Equinox trying to find that Liber, and gave up the chase thinking it something unpublished. I never associated it with myself. Jack [Jack Parsons] breathed a little different atmosphere. Jesus! why don't people make up their minds of their own accord about another instead of hanging on A.C.'s or some other person's opinion. . . .

Surely A.C. would not go to that much trouble to pull someone's leg: but he might. Anyhow he has been all wrong before and is still in some spots I can vouch for in this discourse. So the main part of it could be balls. But then I can't say that either because I do know something about it anyway. But it will take a lot more consideration.

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