Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Saturday, 14 July 1945

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 14.

     

Chits from Beckett. Grady [Grady McMurtry].

     

£74.5.1 from Saturnus [Karl Germer].

     

([I Ching hexagram] 14 Ta Yu) Odd accidents—sou'wester helmet stuck to coat, fell on stairs—found.

     

Left cigar-case ( [Heroin] etc) in toilet at Chess Club Yes: Watson [Herbert Watson] found it still on mantel: also Aq Dist broken!!!

     

Won magnificent game against E.M. Jackson [Edward Mackenzie Jackson]. English opening, got a pawn & a won position, then made usual howler: pulled myself together & won a glorious counter attack with R[ook] & 2 B[ishop]s.

     

Queer accident No 3 at 11 PM taken v.[ery] short; switched on lamp: out it went!

 

 

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