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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Wednesday, 29 December 1943
[I Ching hexagram] 2.
Invented Robbie Burns story see Memoranda p 11*.
Bought 25 Don Esteban Calabash pipe!
Wrote Cath [Catherine Falconer], Max [Max Schneider] & Jean [Jean Sihvonen], 516 [Jane Wolfe / letter] & Albert M. Oppenheimer. Gawd! and cleared up odd papers in general.
* Burns, at dinner of Linlithgow Hunt, challenged to produce an Impromptu, got up, and—
"Fair fa’ the lave o’t but an’ ben Wi’ auchle bauchle fi’ pin(?) ten Auld Hornies himmer gleg ye ken/ An’ haudy daudy. Doft Wullie garred kenspeckle heugh Forbye you auld runts’ grumblie cleugh Wi’ braw-sculduddery the noo An’ houghmagomdie() In kirk that day.” [stet!]
It was applauded as magnificent poetry.
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