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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Wednesday, 17 September 1930
Wed[nesday] 17.
.3% [albumin][1]
She [Hanni Jaeger] was perfectly all right in A.M. but I thought it better to leave, so went to Hotel Miramar Monte Estoril and booked rooms. Here much better than the Paris [Hotel]. She, however, went to Lisbon [Portugal]; and there is no news of her yet—6 P.M. Selah.
Went to Casino. I never realized so fully what utter idiocy gambling is. The dullness of it is unspeakable. Is it connected with masochism? It seems to produce pangs with rare spasms of pleasure. But these last are usually tame.
1—Crowley carried with himself a device to test the level of albumin in his blood, probably through urine. Other similar annotations from this point on show that he was testing the level of albumin almost on a daily basis, comparing it with his general physical condition. Normal levels of albumin in blood range from 3.5 to 5 g/dL.
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