“It’s no go the Yogi-Man, it’s no go Blavatsky,
All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.”

— Louis MacNeice

"Bagpipe Music", line 9, from The Earth Compels (1938)

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poet 1907–1963

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