Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Wednesday, 29 October 1941

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 25.

     

12.5 Woke: some dyspnoea

     

12 1/2 M[orphine] & A[tropine]

     

7 Woke 1/3 [Heroin] as per plan. The breathing was heavy, too.

     

Dozed till 11 1/2. No dyspnoea or yen(?).

     

Looked at boil; some pus—lots of bloody serum through bandage. Clean; no pain unless pressed. But aggravating.

     

Reported to Greta [Valentine].

     

Noon. No dyspnoea or yen: 1/6 honestly as a prophylactic.

     

Four. ditto [Heroin]

     

ditto. Nine [Heroin].

     

Really annoyed at Greta’s neglect.

     

241 [asthma symptoms] began 1/6 (changed because of thirst).

     

Alice [Alice Florey helped again

     

Bayley [James Gilbert Bayley] brought Fuller [J.F.C. Fuller] on War.

     

Very dull setting-forth Caps. I-XII after that damned good

     

Greta promised to call or send urgent—she didn’t.

     

Out at Rickmansworth on case till 9.

 

 

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