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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 31 January 1942
[I Ching hexagram] Kien 53.
Woke 1 & 4 1/2 (1)[Heroin].
8 1/4 (2)[Heroin].
10 1/2 (3)[Heroin].
Noon. Working hard, Peggy [Bartlett] doing room: semi-collapse: Coramine[1] and brandy: instant vomiting and diarrhoea. All over in 5 minutes.
Went out: bitter chill: felt ill:
1 1/2 (4)[Heroin]. Bentley’s—my dear old waitress told me I was looking like hell! Had a sort of black-out.
4 1/4 (5)[Heroin].
7 3/4 (6)[Heroin].
2-4 1/4 Slept.
Alice came—tea—slept again till 7 1/2. Effect of chill, I think.
Working, when awake, on the New Poems. (Not breaking concentration, because of my Oath of Silence about the Tarot).
Must have slept early, and right through the night.
See memo at end p 4 [See last note supra].
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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