Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Thursday, 13 January 1944

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 39.

     

Pitch dark nearly all day [I Ching hexagram] 39.

     

9 Plumber.

     

[I Ching hexagram] 39 all day: inferior basin taps.

     

No paper to print photos! [I Ching hexagram] 39.

     

No seat for As & old Lace [I Ching hexagram] 39.

     

No [Heroin] or sq on wangle [I Ching hexagram] 39.

     

No Cordelia [Cordelia Sutherland] for typing [I Ching hexagram] 39.

     

Ch[iswick] press swine wrote [I Ching hexagram] 39 Kien.

     

No Tub [Alice Upham].

     

No light in sky for company [I Ching hexagram] 39.

     

Couldn’t force myself to see Jane Eyre [again] (3 shots!).

     

Can’t get F.[iat] Y.[od] [Anne Macky]  on ‘phone [I Ching hexagram] 39.

     

Shortage of paper for ‘photos [I Ching hexagram] 39.

     

7.36 [Air Raid] Alert ([I Ching hexagram] 39 Kien).

     

R.[aiders] P.[assed] 8.

     

8. Morrison called with a cub of the name(?) of Denny(?) & took me to the Junior Carlton, where were one Dr Alastair (? spelling) & a naval child who stammered. I preached 93. Much Uisage [whisky].

     

13 samples of [I Ching hexagram] 39 Kien.

 

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