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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 15 January 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 49.
Insomnia: woke 4 o’c,
Then 5 1/2 with 241 [asthma symptoms] (1 [Heroin].
7 (2)[Heroin].
8 (3)[Heroin] 241 quite bad from hurried getting up: injection followed by nausea: heart XOP.
Coramine[1] and brandy.
Room airless & overheated: blast the Black-Out!
10 1/2 sudden attack (41) [M&A(tropine)].
1 o’c (4)[Heroin] leak again.
3 o’c (4A)[Heroin].
7 1/2 (41)[M&A] not really urgent: ?prudent??
Dale for shoes: Dolamore (in vain) for Hootch.
Violently shopping and copying Plan 241 for typist found at Dale the Cobbler’s:
Weather perfectly beastly, although sunny & dry! I don’t know how it manages to do it! It did me down.
Frieda [Frieda Harris] calls off tea—it’s only my time she wastes nearly every day.
Liverside rang up. Note for political economy. The individual owes the community all because he cannot live without it for many days, except in the rarest cases. It owes him (in its own interest) to maintain him at his optimum.
1—Coramine is a circulatory stimulant and was used in the mid-twentieth century as a medical countermeasure against tranquilizer overdoses.
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