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
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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