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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 13 April 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 3.
Cecil [Robert Cecil] had gone to Oddy’s [restaurant].
BF Will pick me up here at 6.30 to eat & skry.
6 1/2-8 1/2 Jabbering, mostly about poetry. Mentioned also T.S. Eliot “The Waste Land” which I had looked over, nauseated and ineffably contemptuous, earlier in the day. We never mentioned the publication plan.
Bad night.
Lively all day.
Tot: 5/12 [Heroin] plus 4 (40).
7 2 (41)[M&A(tropine)]. (41) does give one a thirst! but stimulates better than (40).
Called on Blondie Ignatz. Greta [Valentine] had found him out, & vamoosed the Ranch! Note: ‘modern ‘school’ of ‘poetry’ the much-beslavered “observation” is all sniffing sexual privies. They never get away from it; and they see only the sordid dirty side of it.
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