Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Tuesday, 10 February 1942

 

[I Ching hexagram] 58.

     

Woke 7 1/2: little 241 [asthma symptoms] & well refreshed: whether I woke & took (1)[Heroin] at 4 I don’t know. Rather disturbing: think best not to guess so:

     

7 3/4 (1)[Heroin] Useless: 241 came on baddishly: am bewildered: made various accidents with dose, don’t know exact amount; probably.

     

8 1/4 (2, 3)[Heroin] Q[uer]y is there lack of 41[M&A(tropine)]?

     

9 1/2 Suffocation: it passed off.

     

Bath 10 (41)[M&A].

     

12 This did seem to work very well. Coramine[1] may have helped.

     

Phoned Pickfords re clothes.

     

Rang F.H. [Frieda Harris] re Ham [Gerald Hamilton].

     

Nick called up: she has to pack for him! My considered judgment is that when he was circumcised, they threw him away, and kept the prepuce by mistake!

     

4 Alice here Bayley [James Gilbert Bayley].

     

6 Ham. Photos (58 Tui).

     

12 1/2 (4)[Heroin].

     

4 (5)[Heroin].

     

7 (6)[Heroin]. Tot: 1 1/12

     

10 1/4 241 going to bed.

     

7 (8)[Heroin]. Tot 1 5/12.

     

Gave Bruce Blunt lunch at Picc.[adilly] Brasserie.

 

 

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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