Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Tuesday, 3 February 1942

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 59.

     

Pleasant dreams, woke twice, then 3 3/4 some XOP (1)[Heroin] inadequate.

     

4 1/4 (2)[Heroin].

     

7 241 [asthma symptoms] came on badly with sudden nausea & diarrhoea. Cause definite: no air in a room too hot (3)[Heroin].

     

9 3/4 (4)[Heroin].

     

XOP all AM

     

11 3/4 (5)[Heroin]. Total 1 gr.

     

4 1/4 Slept since 2 3/4: woke with no 241!! (6)[Heroin].

     

Wrote USA Consul for new regulations Visa.

     

6 1/2 XOP (41)[M&A(tropine)].

     

12 1/2 Oddy’s [restaurant] Cecil [Robert Cecil]. Pleasant lunch.

     

4 1/2 “The Sun [Engraving Company]” proof has arrived at last: the real playing card itself. Colours dreadful; but I am quite drunk with joy. Estimate & specimen card for P.[ost] C.[ard] from Swain. Slept from about 9.

 

 

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