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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 24, August 1942
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[[underlined]] IMAGI-NATION times enamoured of clubs, organizations & fraternities, & of British fans going through their various stages of development-- socialism, sex, semantics seems to be a frequent trend. ' ' which brings me to 'Horizon' possibly the highest-browed of all highbrow magazines over here at present. The editorial in current issue argues that artists in general don't know enough about science & since war tends to stifle artistic achievement they should spend their time coming to terms with science. 'The ideal' (I quote) 'would be a crop of wirters who could not say "I love you" without understanding exactly what is meant by I, love, and you-- in the language of biology, psychology, philosophy and semantics. . . . .How should a writer tackle science? It is clear that most writers have no time to undergo any scientific training-- there are, however, certain books that make the subject easy. One is "The Science of Life'[by H.G. Wells & Julian Huxley]. . .this is the most fascinating of all compendiums and contains incidentally, for those who know how to find them, the plots of about fourteen hundred novels. . . . . .' And so on the the final sting in the tail "It may be said that nothing is more tiresome than an artist with a half-baked knowledge of science. . . ." How true. ' ' Why I should bring all this in is rather obscure but since I [[underlined]] am writing I may as well write about something. (Unlike so many people.)" Bill Temple in a letter dated just the day bfor the preceding, prodeeding from 7 Elm Rd. Wombley Middlesex, Eng. "I hold with this new system of printing only the interesting extracts from letters, as distinct from presenting reasonable facsimiles of same (I gather this phase is current in the States- why?) complete with spelling errors disguised as Ackermanese, blots, fingerprints, & bits of egg (not that you'll get any egg from this side - chickens are grown in bottles over here, owing to the scarcity of eggs). Of course, this means that I'll never seen any of my letters in VoM again, but I always did hanker to be a martyr in the cause of progress. ' ' The Roguos Gallery cover is an absorbing piece of work, especially to a physsigonom-- physiogmist-- no, physiogomnist-- dammit-- (Ackermanese, where art thou?) F i z i o g n o m i s t. I've a ray-gun like Daugherty's, only I didn't know it was a ray-gun. Think-- i might have killed someone! Or does it just paralyse you? The cost of upkeep of it certainly paralyses me. ' ' The letters speak for themselves, which saves you an' me bother." Speaking of letters' speaking for themselves, here's one that's beginning to set up an echo: "Will you please announce in VOM that I am again resigning from fandom." And the customary PS. Roland Foster de la rojala Aviada Forto skribas en la sciencfikcia lingvo de Anglio: "Eble vi miras ricevinte di tium leteron Espurantan de preskan nekonata stefano, kiun vi certe ne sciis esti Esperantisto. Mi nur komencis lerni Esperanto antau malipli ol tri montoj. En Marto nujara, kiam mi vizitis Michael Rosenblum, mi vidis liokupon tre interesan. Je preskau la sama tempo, mi renkontis di tie Dave MCilwain, kiu, mi sciis, estas tre entuziasma Esperntiston. (Mistera afero esta, ke ni ambau estis dum tri monatoj de la sama aviadstacio kaj ne renkontis unu la alian.) De tiem ni trovis di tie kelkajn aliajn Esperantistojn, kaj ni klopodas formi Esperantan Klubon. Parenteze--du el niaj novetrivitaj samideanoj estas nekonataj stefanoj. Ankau, Dave petas ke mi diru al vi ke S-ro John W. Holland, I.E.L delegito kaj defperanto de Tutmonda Julular-Oranizo, nun legas 'Weird Tales', kaj 'Astounding', kaj ec abonas 'Fido'. Dave esperas ke S-ro Holland baldau estas vera stefano." Forster continues, telling how he, McIlwain & author Eric Frank Russell have stf mtgs almost nitely, Tussell recounting his experiences in New York, about stfans everywhere, about the world of writing. During "stf suppers" at the canteen they heatedly argue politix, filosofy, literature, etc. Vivu Esperanto! Longe vivu Rofo de la Rafo, k la plej elkorajn salutojn de Mirta Forsto al Dejmikil. . . David R. Evans puts in an apearance for Australia, riting--hm-- NSW: "I think the drink question is causing a little bother among you chaps in U.S.A. It was something of a coincidence, therefore, that I recently read an article 'In Praise of Alcohol' by Edward Podolsky, in an old 'The Modern Thinkier', a slick magazine dated 1933." The spirit fo which, summarized from Evans' 4 pgs, was as follows: Fresh air good for the human Organism--but too much upsets the body's gas equilibrium & causes convulsions. One even can drink too much water. And it is so of all things, not so? How many famous men have drunk & praised alcohol, including Plato, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, London & Poe. It has been recorded Poe's greatest creations came into being when he was inebriated. And Evans names a certain fantasy riter who, "in a personal letter to me, did not conceal his affection towards alcohol. In view of all this, I find myself merely slightly amused at the hysterical outbursts of puritanical Vomites when commenting on the 'evilness' of the more boisterous among you there." 'Temperance in all things' is Evans' motto, but he also calls for more tolerance for the dirnkers on the part of the teetotallers, espeshly those fans for whom it is no effort to abstain. Has theory which may be of interest to the audience, that delirium tremens is a peep into another dimension made possible by absolute oblivion to surrounding realities, a greatly stimulated brain action & a greater optical perception. ' ' "In conclusion, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that Jesus Christ, when walking in on a wedding party and found that there was only water for the guests to drink, was sport enough to "turn the water into wine". Keen bible students will not deny the record of this historic fact." Coud Tucker be keeping company with the spirits of Poe, Plato & Co? "Will you please announce in VOM--"etc. This offagain-onagain attitude of Pong's is driving FandM, if not fandom, to drink!
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[[underlined]] IMAGI-NATION times enamoured of clubs, organizations & fraternities, & of British fans going through their various stages of development-- socialism, sex, semantics seems to be a frequent trend. ' ' which brings me to 'Horizon' possibly the highest-browed of all highbrow magazines over here at present. The editorial in current issue argues that artists in general don't know enough about science & since war tends to stifle artistic achievement they should spend their time coming to terms with science. 'The ideal' (I quote) 'would be a crop of wirters who could not say "I love you" without understanding exactly what is meant by I, love, and you-- in the language of biology, psychology, philosophy and semantics. . . . .How should a writer tackle science? It is clear that most writers have no time to undergo any scientific training-- there are, however, certain books that make the subject easy. One is "The Science of Life'[by H.G. Wells & Julian Huxley]. . .this is the most fascinating of all compendiums and contains incidentally, for those who know how to find them, the plots of about fourteen hundred novels. . . . . .' And so on the the final sting in the tail "It may be said that nothing is more tiresome than an artist with a half-baked knowledge of science. . . ." How true. ' ' Why I should bring all this in is rather obscure but since I [[underlined]] am writing I may as well write about something. (Unlike so many people.)" Bill Temple in a letter dated just the day bfor the preceding, prodeeding from 7 Elm Rd. Wombley Middlesex, Eng. "I hold with this new system of printing only the interesting extracts from letters, as distinct from presenting reasonable facsimiles of same (I gather this phase is current in the States- why?) complete with spelling errors disguised as Ackermanese, blots, fingerprints, & bits of egg (not that you'll get any egg from this side - chickens are grown in bottles over here, owing to the scarcity of eggs). Of course, this means that I'll never seen any of my letters in VoM again, but I always did hanker to be a martyr in the cause of progress. ' ' The Roguos Gallery cover is an absorbing piece of work, especially to a physsigonom-- physiogmist-- no, physiogomnist-- dammit-- (Ackermanese, where art thou?) F i z i o g n o m i s t. I've a ray-gun like Daugherty's, only I didn't know it was a ray-gun. Think-- i might have killed someone! Or does it just paralyse you? The cost of upkeep of it certainly paralyses me. ' ' The letters speak for themselves, which saves you an' me bother." Speaking of letters' speaking for themselves, here's one that's beginning to set up an echo: "Will you please announce in VOM that I am again resigning from fandom." And the customary PS. Roland Foster de la rojala Aviada Forto skribas en la sciencfikcia lingvo de Anglio: "Eble vi miras ricevinte di tium leteron Espurantan de preskan nekonata stefano, kiun vi certe ne sciis esti Esperantisto. Mi nur komencis lerni Esperanto antau malipli ol tri montoj. En Marto nujara, kiam mi vizitis Michael Rosenblum, mi vidis liokupon tre interesan. Je preskau la sama tempo, mi renkontis di tie Dave MCilwain, kiu, mi sciis, estas tre entuziasma Esperntiston. (Mistera afero esta, ke ni ambau estis dum tri monatoj de la sama aviadstacio kaj ne renkontis unu la alian.) De tiem ni trovis di tie kelkajn aliajn Esperantistojn, kaj ni klopodas formi Esperantan Klubon. Parenteze--du el niaj novetrivitaj samideanoj estas nekonataj stefanoj. Ankau, Dave petas ke mi diru al vi ke S-ro John W. Holland, I.E.L delegito kaj defperanto de Tutmonda Julular-Oranizo, nun legas 'Weird Tales', kaj 'Astounding', kaj ec abonas 'Fido'. Dave esperas ke S-ro Holland baldau estas vera stefano." Forster continues, telling how he, McIlwain & author Eric Frank Russell have stf mtgs almost nitely, Tussell recounting his experiences in New York, about stfans everywhere, about the world of writing. During "stf suppers" at the canteen they heatedly argue politix, filosofy, literature, etc. Vivu Esperanto! Longe vivu Rofo de la Rafo, k la plej elkorajn salutojn de Mirta Forsto al Dejmikil. . . David R. Evans puts in an apearance for Australia, riting--hm-- NSW: "I think the drink question is causing a little bother among you chaps in U.S.A. It was something of a coincidence, therefore, that I recently read an article 'In Praise of Alcohol' by Edward Podolsky, in an old 'The Modern Thinkier', a slick magazine dated 1933." The spirit fo which, summarized from Evans' 4 pgs, was as follows: Fresh air good for the human Organism--but too much upsets the body's gas equilibrium & causes convulsions. One even can drink too much water. And it is so of all things, not so? How many famous men have drunk & praised alcohol, including Plato, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, London & Poe. It has been recorded Poe's greatest creations came into being when he was inebriated. And Evans names a certain fantasy riter who, "in a personal letter to me, did not conceal his affection towards alcohol. In view of all this, I find myself merely slightly amused at the hysterical outbursts of puritanical Vomites when commenting on the 'evilness' of the more boisterous among you there." 'Temperance in all things' is Evans' motto, but he also calls for more tolerance for the dirnkers on the part of the teetotallers, espeshly those fans for whom it is no effort to abstain. Has theory which may be of interest to the audience, that delirium tremens is a peep into another dimension made possible by absolute oblivion to surrounding realities, a greatly stimulated brain action & a greater optical perception. ' ' "In conclusion, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that Jesus Christ, when walking in on a wedding party and found that there was only water for the guests to drink, was sport enough to "turn the water into wine". Keen bible students will not deny the record of this historic fact." Coud Tucker be keeping company with the spirits of Poe, Plato & Co? "Will you please announce in VOM--"etc. This offagain-onagain attitude of Pong's is driving FandM, if not fandom, to drink!
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