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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Tuesday, 24 March 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 51.
Saw “Ball of Fire”: good of its kind, even very good: but some “longeurs”.
Bitter cold AM: so—bad day!
Ham's [Gerald Hamilton] hysterics devastation. He is like a plague, violently infectious. I think he succeeds by spreading his pestilence, so that his victim doesn’t know what he is saying or doing, and so agrees to anything!
Temp[erature] 98.4 99 (after dose of Ham).
Tot: 1 3/4 [Heroin].
Foul mangy alley-cat, Frieda's [Frieda Harris] cousin: Mrs Sanders Ham 1248 8 Gardinor Mans. Church Row NW4. PS I take this back, all of it. It was Frieda’s fault, first to last.
Lent Ham £8 on security of alleged Terniers. He paid back £3 already owing. This was spontaneous, though, not bemused.
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