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I seem to dimly remember reading a review Crowley wrote on Waite's deck somewhere, only I can't find it. I remember it being really funny and cynical. Am I imagining it? Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Encyclopaedia Thelemica said:Many years later, after Crowley and Waite had been peers in the Golden Dawn, Crowley subjected Waite to numerous scathing reviews in The Equinox, often with the fictitious pretense that Waite was Crowley's "disciple." Crowley even went so far as to publish an obituary for the still-living Waite.
Mr Waite still talks as if his mouth were full of hot potatoes. The length
and obscurity of his archaisms renders him almost unintelligible to me, an
affectation which I find intolerable... Mr Waite's grammar is as slovenly as ever: "The said three persons will draw lots among each other." ... Mr Waite's scholarship is as slovenly as ever... I am learning Scotch... so that I have no time to learn Waitese
Crowley's review on Waite's The Key to the Tarot is in The Equinox vol.I. no.III. 320-322pp, which begins "Mr. Waite has written a book on fortune-telling, and we advise servant-girls to keep an eye on their half-crowns...."