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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 24 January 1943
[I Ching hexagram] 10.
Two totally unexpected visits.
Gradually picking up from a long bad attack of GOK. Worked on OLLA:
Recast sestet(?) of Le Gouffre—practically satisfied at last; AND—after 42 years funking it!—translated “Unenuit que j’etais pres dune affreuse Juive”! quite well, I think. Again I notice that my English is even more nervous & economical than Baudelaire’s French; I have to fill up from C.B.’s [Charles Baudelaire] soul Eg Ses cheveux qui lui fout un casque parfume (12 sqll) become by 6 sqll “Her helm of perfumed hair” and I had to add “black serpents charmed” to make my pentameter.
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