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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 1 November 1941
[I Ching hexagram] 29.
Woke 6 3/4 (1) [Heroin] n.[o] g.[ood].
(2) [Heroin] 7 1/2.
Sleep till noon (3) [Heroin] not urgent.
Day of National Prayer announced for Nov. 9 (alert—first for over 3 months—follows the same day).
Leg-inflammation less extensive, but raw surface not so good—or so it seems to me.
4 1/4 no urgency at all 1/6
8 3/4 ditto but dyspnoea
increasing 1/6
DISCOVERED why 3rd Hex is M2 plus F1.
Alice [Alice Florey] here very helpful and sweet.
It is quite disturbing to hear the views of everybody I know, all in agreement about the Government’s attitude to the war. It implies praeterhuman imbecility as well as dishonesty: but there seems plenty of corroboration on both these issues. The Duke of Bedford is no doubt crazy; but a good deal of what he says is plain good sense.
[Newspaper slip here: “He has ‘the lowest possible opinion of the intelligence of the average politician,’ and ‘an equally low opinion of those who control the Press and B.B.C.’ From these he only expects ‘lies and folly.’]
10 P.M. Gunfire
10 1/4 [Air Raid] Alert.
11 1/4 all clear.
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[Heroin].