Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Thursday, 5 March 1942

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 39.

     

Very fed up with financial trickery in this house.

     

3/—for a bad half-sandwich. Told Ling I would stop this.

     

55th anniversary of my father’s [Edward Crowley] death.

     

Alice as usual.

     

12 Mr. Green, of Chiswick Press, here. Gave him Tarot book to cast off & estimate: Crown 4to 12-point.

     

A bad day for health.

     

Tiring easily (hard work in AM) vomited twice, cough with some pain, much phlegm heart called for Coramine[1] once.

     

Temp 98.8 .4.0 [Heroin] Tot: 1 1/3.

     

Much broncial irritation (40).

     

The idiot Hughes [from Apex Printers] returned 33 ["Landed Gentry"] saying it is libellous!! Quel con!

     

R Fraser Hill, Donald Darlington and Niece 3-4 Clement’s Inn WC2 Solr rec by MAS CHA 7638-9.

 

 

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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