Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Tuesday, 18 October 1921
Awoke fit and well, only to go down with a most violent and distressing attack of asthma, which is still—2.15 P.M.—going very strong.
4.44 With heroin and rum I have driven away the worst of my symptoms—wrote a note on Ibsen and Synge in the flyleaf of my Synge. Another idea strikes me: a story with an inexplicable climax which becomes obvious when the reader is allowed to guess that the heroine is a negress.
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