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Spacewarp, v. 4, issue 2, November 1948
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Dear r-t Trapp: Yes, I've been wondering, too. In the magazines I have been receiving, there is less mention of the Torcon than there would be mention of who caused that odor in the elevator. I am hoping the next FAPA Mailing will contain some stuff. I think LIGHT has done pretty well. With the stuff in the issue I am now preparing, it will make 3 consecutive issues of LIGHT being influenced by the Torcon. I've had that same thing happen to me -- using the wrong figures in a formula then wondering why the devil it wasn't working out. Right now I'm taking a course to prepare for examinations sometime next year to see about a government job -- and some of it is tough stuff. Fortunately I have always been able to study by myself from books -- better than from a teacher, in fact. But this damned grammar analysis is tougher to me than mathematics ever was. Just what are you going through for? ((I think a teacher who has teaching ability can do wonders for a student -- but such teachers are rare, unfortunately.//I'm taking a course designed to produce a stfwriter -- or something, perhaps a BEM. Technically, I'm majoring in journalism but I8m also getting all the sciences and math i can cram into my schedule.)) We once had a fracas in the FAPA along the lines of the Cox-Storer-Sneary affair -- one Searles threatened censorship, and so on and the membership made things so hot he tog out. I am against race prejudice -- religious prejudice -- sexual prejudice -- and censorship of free speech. If anything like this gets into the FAPA again I'll be in there hammer and tongs -- and I won't be the only Canadian member. Ben Singer probably didn't worry God anyway. Singer is pretty small potatoes as a menace to the human race right now when you consider certain other gentlemen in the international scene. The AAF will outlet Ben down. Now he'll find out what it is like to live in a tar-paper barracks for two weeks, as Alger kept saying, with a grin. No doubt this is the best thing for Ben. Ben had a lot of excess energy and he will now learn -- or should -- to direct it to constructive purposes. Enjoyed the current issue of SPACEWARP -- or should I nickname it "Spacerat" -- which reminds me, wonder why no fan has used that name for a magazine yet? But anyway -- though there is nothing on which I will comment just now, I liked reading the mag. Oh yes, was wondering why you don't use more illustrations. Get a local fan, or even one not so local if need be, who'll do the work directly on the stencil. And don't try to say it's too much work if he isn't local -- Bob Gibson, who is always active in LIGHT, lives in Calgary, Albrety. If you know your geography you'll know where that is -- North of Wyoming! And distance isn't any drawback with us. ((I dunno.....it's very seldom that I see a fullpage mimeo drawing which I feel would be worth sacrificing a page of text to include. I cheerfully admit, however, that my artistic judgment is something to make brave men shudder and all artists to commit suicide, so I could be wrong. However, with the exception of pro- and coon- hectoart, I can't recall that the subject of WARP illos has ever come up before. Reader opinion invited.)) Guess this'll be all. LES CROUTCH Box 121 Parry Sound, Ontario, Can. 20
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Dear r-t Trapp: Yes, I've been wondering, too. In the magazines I have been receiving, there is less mention of the Torcon than there would be mention of who caused that odor in the elevator. I am hoping the next FAPA Mailing will contain some stuff. I think LIGHT has done pretty well. With the stuff in the issue I am now preparing, it will make 3 consecutive issues of LIGHT being influenced by the Torcon. I've had that same thing happen to me -- using the wrong figures in a formula then wondering why the devil it wasn't working out. Right now I'm taking a course to prepare for examinations sometime next year to see about a government job -- and some of it is tough stuff. Fortunately I have always been able to study by myself from books -- better than from a teacher, in fact. But this damned grammar analysis is tougher to me than mathematics ever was. Just what are you going through for? ((I think a teacher who has teaching ability can do wonders for a student -- but such teachers are rare, unfortunately.//I'm taking a course designed to produce a stfwriter -- or something, perhaps a BEM. Technically, I'm majoring in journalism but I8m also getting all the sciences and math i can cram into my schedule.)) We once had a fracas in the FAPA along the lines of the Cox-Storer-Sneary affair -- one Searles threatened censorship, and so on and the membership made things so hot he tog out. I am against race prejudice -- religious prejudice -- sexual prejudice -- and censorship of free speech. If anything like this gets into the FAPA again I'll be in there hammer and tongs -- and I won't be the only Canadian member. Ben Singer probably didn't worry God anyway. Singer is pretty small potatoes as a menace to the human race right now when you consider certain other gentlemen in the international scene. The AAF will outlet Ben down. Now he'll find out what it is like to live in a tar-paper barracks for two weeks, as Alger kept saying, with a grin. No doubt this is the best thing for Ben. Ben had a lot of excess energy and he will now learn -- or should -- to direct it to constructive purposes. Enjoyed the current issue of SPACEWARP -- or should I nickname it "Spacerat" -- which reminds me, wonder why no fan has used that name for a magazine yet? But anyway -- though there is nothing on which I will comment just now, I liked reading the mag. Oh yes, was wondering why you don't use more illustrations. Get a local fan, or even one not so local if need be, who'll do the work directly on the stencil. And don't try to say it's too much work if he isn't local -- Bob Gibson, who is always active in LIGHT, lives in Calgary, Albrety. If you know your geography you'll know where that is -- North of Wyoming! And distance isn't any drawback with us. ((I dunno.....it's very seldom that I see a fullpage mimeo drawing which I feel would be worth sacrificing a page of text to include. I cheerfully admit, however, that my artistic judgment is something to make brave men shudder and all artists to commit suicide, so I could be wrong. However, with the exception of pro- and coon- hectoart, I can't recall that the subject of WARP illos has ever come up before. Reader opinion invited.)) Guess this'll be all. LES CROUTCH Box 121 Parry Sound, Ontario, Can. 20
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