Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Sunday, 2 November 1941

[I Ching hexagram] 5.

1 1/2 Woke from uneasy dreams some dyspnoea

2 o’c. M[orphine] & A[tropine].

6 3/4 woke—slept again—8 woke bad diarrhoea 1/6 [Heroin].

9 General discomfort 1/6 .

11 1/2 Sunday-paper-pair(?)-in-the old-place.

(2)[Heroin] Alice [Alice Florey] here—nap—3 o’c.

(3)[Heroin] Peacock called—leg healing nicely. (Unasked: I refused to discuss medical matters.

Feeling weak and faint all day: am I eating enough? I think not.

Quite bad while waiting for tea. . . .

6 o’c. (4) [Heroin] to have it well out of the way before M.A.S. [Maurice A. Sutherland] comes. And then his wife rang up—he’s ill, in bed! Damn! House short of sugar, coffee, & so on—the first time it has been noticeable.

Slept early—woke 11/2- dys[pnoea] M & A.

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