Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Tuesday, 28 October 1941

[I Ching hexagram] 32.

Wrote Saturnus [Karl Germer].

Found it hard to sleep; well when I did.

Woke 5 a.m.

Asth[ma]. & pain in leg 1/6 [Heroin]. Thought this adequate: but work and Perique brought on an attack 6 a.m. 1/6 .

Slept till 11 1/2 woke with some dyspnoea not much & no ‘gen’ (?). Routine 1/6 probably lost 20% by dropping the tablet too far.

12 4 people have telephoned or called in a space of 20 minutes!

Pam here for an hour—delightful as ever.

Alice [Alice Florey] helping with boil.

Forgot to enters: but 1/6 about 3 & again at 7. This calculated to give me time to get sleepy; but at 10 1/2 P.M. I’m very wide awake.

8 M.A.S. [Maurice A. Sutherland] Chess: all very nice, but one feels a sore spot.

Dozed after 11 & bad Kangchen. nightmare in a mild form.

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