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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Tuesday, 21 February 1922
12.01 A.M. I have painted my chest and throat with Iodine. The last of the phlegm seems to have come away. I don’t expect to sleep soon with all this stuff in me, in spite of last night’s struggle and the shortness of the final sleep.
But my programme for the day is this:
On waking: Cafe and croissant.
The first even hour: Reveille.
Two hours later: Curfew.
Four doses of heroin. No cocaine.
In case of physical trouble, treat symptoms as they arise, without narcotics.
Walk in forest if fine. (Provided money arrives).
4:26. to Paris.
Dine with Laverne [?].
Look for partner for IX°: on no account have anything to do with 31-666-31 [Leah Hirsig] unless the magnetic conditions are totally reversed. Use partner aforesaid when found. Sleep early: wake early and repeat Tuesday’s programme: but 1 1/2 hours heroin in 3 doses.
Thursday ditto but 1 hour & 2 doses.
Friday ditto with 1 dose on waking.
Saturday ditto but 1 hour after waking.
Sunday ditto but 2 hours after waking.
Monday ditto but 3 hours after waking.
Arrange to go to Epinal if C.F. wires. Otherwise, (query) find an Epinal near Paris (Query).
1 plus. 12.30 P.M.
2 plus. 1.0 P.M. Medium
3 plus 1.
4.44 P.M. Vers Paris. It has been a bad day: chest never really free, moral confusion, etc. Damp and dull. Had to use one or two extra heroin. Letter from Angers [Algiers?]! Camille is there. What about journey?
Last night I had excited visions of going to Epinal without reference to Camille, vague phantasms of a marriage (suggested by seeing one yesterday) and playing chess as a way of getting into the game [?]. I think all these should be dismissed; they had not the ring of truth.
5 — to this train.
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