Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Thursday, 11 December 1941

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 10.

     

6 1/4 Woke after uninterrupted sleep. (1)[Heroin] The trouble was constipation.

     

9 3/4 (2)[Heroin] on general principles.

     

Drive with Frieda [Frieda Harris].

     

Shivering.

     

Big lunch 241 [asthma symptoms] 1/34 M&A[tropine].

     

Weak about 4o’c (3)[Heroin].

     

Very tired generally. Can’t get hands and feet warm, though in bed.

     

8 1/4 o’c (4)[Heroin].

     

The top note of this visit was at lunch on Friday at the hotel-room full of the ‘nice minds of Chipping Campden’: I asked, innocently: “Did you ever live with a man who worked in a scent factory?” (Introduction to a story about Roddie Minor in NY)

 

 

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