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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 20 September 1941
[I Ching hexagram] 37.
Sent out more T.U. [Thumbs Up!] Note—any date.
The Tub [Alice Upham] is really very amusing; is always using words out of their meanings. Not like Mrs. Malaprop or my lady-invention “Egypt is so different since Lord Cromer introduced IRRUMATION” meaning “irrigation”; for with them the fun comes from recognizing the mistake.
But Alice's [Alice Florey] words are completely untraceable, or at most have some wild links with “high finance.” Explains it as “a form of inflation”(!!!). Her nearest after a long pressure: “a way to keep the pound from falling” & “nobody can get any money.” I must collect a few of these “Spellerisms.” They usually occur with devastating effect, in the course of an apparently intelligible talk. I am brought up with a jerk, realizing that she cannot have understood a word of the last 5 minutes’ talk! In this case it was connected with servants getting higher wages.
Lost my keys.
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