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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 23 August 1920
Painted frames all a.m. etc. Letter from Mrs. Clarke—wrote reply. Dreamt 'The Masks', a satire for the screen. I slept a good deal, and enjoyed the exquisite languors, Our Lady's Grace [Opium] to the fullest. I read up the subject in my Toxicology and my Dictionary of Medicine; amazed at the crude ignorance of that and the broad-minded agnostics of this. We started the pipe again about.
3.00 p.m. Quain[1] suggests cocaine to steady opium, and doesn't say that the practice is especially pernicious. I'll try it out, gently; it is 11.50 p.m.
1—[A Dictionary of Medicine, edited by Sir Richard Quain, 1882; third edition, 1910.]
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