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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 10 April 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 35.
Hard & exciting day.
Half-hour with Reeves, general manager Jermyn Property Co.
Miss H[ubard] arrested at 3 PM numerous charges.
Wired Pearl [Pearl Brooksmith] about job: wrote details.
Lunch at Picc Brass with Ham [Gerald Hamilton].
Report from horse re shit; negative—nay, sterile! The purity of my mind and the holiness of my life?
4 1/2 Mrs. Clifford Norton, wife of new British minister to Berne, to tea: also Alice & Ham.
Weather good; but almost constant strain tired me.
Collapsish about 7 PM. Hence Tot: 2/3 gr. [Heroin] plus 5 x (40).
5 1/2 Catherine Falconer. Took her to 10 Ice breaker, great fun. Her bomb burials. Pinched for shoplifting. “Highly educated, intelligent, hard-working girl, come down in the world—how sad!” sad sapient stipendiary—and put her on probation for a year!!!!!!!!!
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