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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 23 February 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 44.
12 o’c Wished Miss Hubbard “many happy returns”. [temperature] 97.8 F.
1 1/2 [temperature] 99 F.
A Crowley. IOU £2.10.0 E&OE Gerald Hamilton [in Hamilton’s hand, with signature] paid: but now £3.
1 1/4 Woke, I suppose from violent dreams, they were so real. Some 241 [asthma symptoms]. Coramine[1].
2 1/4 dozed 241 bd (40) or? did all leak? and what? No effect, in any case. (4)[Heroin] quite sure.
4 3/4 woke: A1 dream. See Memo p 7*.
(1) 241 bad.
5 o’c [temperature] 98.4 F.
5 1/2 241 eased off.
7 1/2 woke: 241 (40).
Cable from 132 [Wilfred Talbot Smith]. Worries ended Understand writing.
11 1/2 Woke from v.[ery] quiet sleep: no 241. [temperature] 99.6.
11 3/4 shat well, but 241 (2, 3)[Heroin].
1 3/4 (4)[Heroin].
4 1/4 woke: no 241 (40).
12 King says I need no more doctoring but agreed to call Wednesday.
12 1/2 Monsignor Barton Brown from Tewkesbury.
Phone [Dr.] Crawshaw new chit [for heroin].
9 o’c (4, 5)[Heroin].
* [Memo: This type of dream begins with presentation of extremely vivid miniature “freaks-of-nature” or sculptures in curious rare gems, usually semi-precious. These objects are then read as symbols of phrases: e.g. “while runs the sacred river” etc. This is then recomposed into single picture.
Gamekeeper, thanking squarson for christening his firstborn: (a) throaty—autumn tints—nut brown ale-rich dark greens, reds, & browns “—with care & the Church of England, your arse, sir, as you may say, sir, the country’s safe.” This is heard, felt & seen all at once: and understood as the perfect presentation of the poem, as each phrase of that is to be the original sculptures in miniature.
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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