Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Tuesday, 17 February 1942

 

[I Ching hexagram] 6.

     

5 3/4 Woke little 241 [asthma symptoms] (1)[Heroin].

     

7 o’c Age tells: perique [tobacco] on empty stomach—241 so (2)[Heroin].

     

Batch: sleep till 9 o’c (3)[Heroin].

     

12 1/4 (4, 5)[Heroin]. Shopped and fed insanely.

     

3 1/2 (6)[Heroin]. Tot: 1 1/6 gr.

     

6 1/4 (7)[Heroin]. Tot: 1 1/4 gr (final).

     

8 (40).

     

10 o’c 241 (40).

     

Letter from R.H. Naylor, warning re 33.

     

$[resh] from Saturnus [Karl Germer].

     

Picc Brass. 1 1/4 RC Useful talk: he says [water virgo] IV better than 64.

     

25 cigars £7.5.0.

     

Fine F&M [Fortnum & Mason].

     

£3.5.0 Latakia [tobacco].

     

£1.0.0 k.t.l. [etc.]

     

£1.10.0/ £13.0.0.

     

Paid bill 56 98 £6.11.3.

     

Lent Miss Hubbard £5.0.0/£11.11.3.

     

Very cold; I now (20th) think that all this prancing about, together with the beastly bitter wind on Monday night brought on this collapse of Feb 18.

 

 

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