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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 28 December 1941
[I Ching hexagram] 55.
12 1/2 am OK have read through Sir E. Pollock’s “Everlasting Bonfire” one of the funniest books ever written—sans le savoir!
2 Woke 241 [asthma symptoms] Headache & toothache! Still awake, dreamt till lots of broken tooth came away: plus the crown (twice) of the loose molar!! (1)[Heroin] This cleared all up: but used iodine to pursue it.
6 1/2 woke 241 (2)[Heroin].
8 o’c 241 coming on badly (3)[Heroin].
3 o’c Writing to [F.W.] Hylton.
7 o’c Continued so doing.
8 1/2 Killing myself on beastly letter! Collapse: Coramine:[1] vomited: rested.
9 o’c OK but washed out.
12 Tried to smoke, read sleep: n.[o] g.[ood] (4)[Heroin]
On with this bloody letter.
1 o’c Finished it.
3 1/4 also it finished me. I couldn’t read, write, smoke, sleep: but my heart began antics: without any 241! So, reluctantly (5)[Heroin].
7 1/2 241 due mostly to the dreadful tedium of MAS [Maurice A. Sutherland] in an off-hand game (6)[Heroin].
This house has gone utterly haywire. Servants going or gone: nothing to be had or done. No central heating.
I feel rotten; Pickfords annoys me.
1—Coramine is a circulatory stimulant and was used in the mid-twentieth century as a medical countermeasure against tranquilizer overdoses.
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