Who were Joan Didion and Aleister Crowley?
Joan Didion Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.
Goetia Goetia or Goëtia (Medieval Latin; anglicised as goety ) is a practice that includes the conjuration of demons, specifically the ones summoned by the Biblical figure, King Solomon. The use of the term in English largely derives from the 17th-century grimoire "The Lesser Key of Solomon", which features an "Ars Goetia" as its first section. It contains descriptions of the evocation, or "calling out", of seventy-two demons, famously edited by Aleister Crowley in 1904 as "The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King".