Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Wednesday, 18 September 1940
[I Ching Hexagram] 42.
[Air raid] All Clear 6.5. [Air raid] Alert 7.18-7.37, 8.18-8.43, 9.35-10.20, 11.32-11.43!!!, 12.45-2.27, 4.12-4.30, 5.12-5.55, 7.56-5.30 A.M.
Wrote to Frieda [Frieda Harris] & Williamson—Noble.
Sutherland [Maurice A. Sutherland] to chess.
11.35 Great air fuss, but not much fun! Too near here.
Bright moon: thin clouds; vast flashes up London way reddened their fleeces.
11.40 V.[ery] big bomb (No: a mine) quite near: echoes went on for at least a minute. Suddenly quiet just before 12.
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