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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 3 January 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 38.
12 /14 woke
6 1/4 woke (1)[Heroin] inadq.
7 1/2 (2, 3)[Heroin].
Bath 10 1/2 (4)[Heroin] to go out:
Shopped: saw “Unholy Partners” Edward G Robinson. A1 but should have preferred happy ending.
1 3/4 Tired and ill: (5)[Heroin] not wanting to risk M&A[tropine] (call it 41) when out.
Slept 3 1/2-5 slight 241 [asthma symptoms] so (41)[M&A].
The man next door to me, long ill, has died.
9 3/4 Have taken life quietly.
To bed. 241 at once—badly. Queer!
Hate taking a 2nd 41[M&A]: so (6)[Heroin] damn the whole show!
11 1/4 It hasn’t worked too well, either! hell.
11 1/2 Curse it (7)[Heroin].
Great row in house, too: sobbing and screaming? See Limerick at end.*
Even all this
1 1/2 AM and no sleep.
* A party called Malachi Frank Was respected in ev-er-y Bank Why must we assume That they put on his tomb: “He lived—and he died—and he stank”
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[Heroin] n.[o] g.[ood]. Lungs not properly clear: much internal
gurgling: costine(?) diarrhoea: