Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Monday, 23 March 1942

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 36.

     

Bought ties at Beale ..£1.5.8: Aries shoes from Dale £6.0.0.

     

There is a strange demand for Abramelin: both Watkins and Marks have waiting lists: ditto Mike.

     

Weather bright, but cold N. wind.

     

I shopped over a wide area without distress, although my fire fused.

     

Diarrhoea & cough still at it.

     

Temp[erature] 98.4 (twice 0).

     

Tot: 1 1/2 [Heroin].

     

Wrote “The Tea-fight Sonata”. Aunt Mary is all very well; but it wastes a lot of time splashing me with its spate of sterfcorous woe; moreover, its miasma infects the whole atmosphere. I think a demon with a very long pitchfork ought to drop it into a very distant volcano.

 

 

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