Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Monday, 13 January 1941

[I Ching hexagram] 55.

Le morphine m’a fait gaber comme un fat! Kept me awake till after 4.

Emanuel Lasker^[1] dead in New York.

James Joyce^[2] has died in Zurich. Amusing remarks by B.B.C.

£12 from Fra∴ & Wilkinson [Louis Wilkinson] & F.H. [Frieda Harris].

Chess v. amateur 1-1 (he was v.[ery] slow second game, & Mrs. H. was waiting), v. Mrs. Holloway 3-0.

1—Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years (from 1894 to 1921).

2—James  Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, perhaps most prominently stream of consciousness.

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