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Leah Hirsig Diary Entry Friday, 18 July 1924
July 18
4:15PM Yi—How shall I act at present with regard to Alma [Alma Hirsig]?
[I Ching hexagram] Earth of Sol. No XXII, Pi Twan—Avoid Initiative
[Hexagram] Line 1. Show the excellence of your way as enabling you to despise material matters. [Hexagram] Line 2. Art is very well, but dependent on life. [Hexagram] Line 3. Show how fortunate you are. Be firm about it. [Hexagram] Line 4. Offer to help her with great simplicity and great enthusiasm, using sincerity. [Hexagram] Line 5. Set her feel that she owes to you even her present degree of manifestation. [Hexagram] Line 6. Show that the supreme virtue is simplicity.
(Later msbtd [masturbated]: this AM 8:30? Some Life in A.C.
Wrote letters. 4 gr before lunch—4 before dinner. To write to Alma.
8:40 P.M. The keynote to Alma is that her mind is practically gone. A minute or so ago I found B.[east]'s bottle of O.[pium] and took a bit to sober me sufficiently to write Alma.
8:50 I started to write Alma. But it doesn't write. I think I'll decide on the Yi's first injunction and take not the initiative.
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