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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 20 March 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 53.
[Daily Telegraph cutting on Walt Whitman]
Chess poor and dull. MAS [Maurice A. Sutherland] very rude again.
Cecil [Robert Cecil] phoned to lunch. A1 food and talk most amusing.
Tragedy! A letter from OL Gordon, Captain of “HMS Exeter” thanking me for No 17 of “Thumbs Up!” and accepting it on behalf of the ship. I could cry.
Green from Chiswick Press with estimate. Gave him 33.
Wrote to Miss H. with £10 note on Waldron’s say-so.
[Robert] Cecil offered to write to T.S. Eliot of Faber and Faber to publish Tarot [The Book of Thoth].
F.H. [Frieda Harris] sent photos (small) of Tarot & nice letter.
Bought present from AC to
Ankh-f-n-Khonsu: steel knife (two blades) scissors, piercer
& file, corkscrew, silver case.
Exciting day.
Cough bad, led to vomit: diarrhoea attack; worked too hard.
Temp[erature] 98.6-98.4.
Tot: 1 5/12 [Heroin].
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