Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Friday, 16 January 1942

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 63.

     

4 3/4 (1)[Heroin].

     

5 3/4 (2)[Heroin].

     

7 1/4 (3)[Heroin].

     

9 1/2 ? XOP Day dark and chill (41)[M&A(tropine)]

     

11 1/4 (4)[Heroin]. Good nap after lunch, woke with little 241 [asthma symptoms].

     

3 1/4 (5)[Heroin].

     

6 (41)[M&A].

     

10 (6)[Heroin]. This was prophylactic: five (?) 1 /2 hours continuous hard talk to Frieda [Frieda Harris] would (I felt) take its fee as soon as I got to bed.

     

But to-day has been really bad: I simply could not pull myself together the whole AM.

     

F.H. [Frieda Harris] 4 1/2-10 Devilish hard slogging.

     

Wrote Estai [Jane Wolfe]: mostly re Smith [Wilfred Talbot Smith].

     

Gave Frieda snakeskin spectacle case; also MS “Sir Roger Bloxam” Mess: Shall she ask Read Dick for Exposn. [I Ching hexagram] 19 Lin.

 

 

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