Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Monday, 2 February 1942

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 13.

     

2 AM Woke: some 241 [asthma symptoms].

     

2 1/2 (1)[Heroin]. Couldn’t sleep or read: 241 grumbling.

     

4 3/4 (2)[Heroin]. Improved mental condition, did not clear lungs notably.

     

7 1/4 no sleep, but coming up to normal (3)[Heroin].

     

10 3/4 Diarrhoea (& pangs!) (4)[Heroin].

     

1 o’c XO P 1/4 (5)[Heroin]. Tot 1 1/12

     

4 o’c (6)[Heroin] to be able to sit up to tea!!

     

JGB [James Gilbert Bayley] sent films and copies “Landed Gentry”.

     

[F.W.] Hylton sent £11.10.0.

     

Rang Cecil [Robert Cecil]: date 11 to-morrow. . .

     

Pam phoned: to lunch.

     

Alice & Bayley to tea: films viewed: 3 worth printing as rough ideas.

     

7 1/2 Ill—mostly worry (41)[M&A(tropine)]. Slept almost at once.

     

Note. Sunday 8th Brekker [breakfast] 3rd egg in four days. Asked about lunch: roast beef. Demurred: cook suggested scrambled eggs or an omelette!!!!!

 

 

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