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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 19 May 1941
[I Ching hexagram] 6.
Woke 5.20, soaked in cold sweat, from violent dreams.
Terrific bang quite close shook house heavily.
Coughing & retching with very much phlegm. The 1/6 [Heroin] didn’t seem to act well: some apparently leaked.
Weather turned foul.
All Clear 6 a.m.
Cough shattering: Dig am(?) Gels helped it.
Only £4 from Frieda [Frieda Harris].
Asa hopes to come.
Wrote contentiously to these two, & [F.W.] Hylton.
Kenyon Wilson Abergeldie Cleveland Road called for secretarial work.
1/6 [Heroin] at 12 o’c.
Torquay deliberately machine gunned & bombed. Fleet St. & Strand damaged; bombs smashed two houses just opposite Imperial.
Ultimatum from Agent re. rent.
Wrote F.H. [Frieda Harris] again desperate.
Damned ill.
Had to taxi back.
1/6 [Heroin] at 4 1/2. 5 mins. Adr.[enalin] at 7. 1/6 [Heroin] at 11.
Real dyspnoea.
1st bad go since Feb. 20.
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