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GLOM, issue 13, May 1949

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witnesses to my statement---plus Bradbury---I and conjuring again.  In that case you’ll just have to engage in a little correspondents yourself, to determine the facts.  Consult the people who were there.  If they weren’t there, then I’m a liar.
   Now, what I was going to say was: AE van Vogt & Edna Mayne Hull didn’t have to come to this affair; Bryce & Marsha Walton didn’t have to; Ray Bradbury was under no compulsion to mix socially with such social outcasts as Lasfassers are painted to be.  And why did Rick Sneary come clear and from South Gate?  Stan Woolston from Garden Grove?  Clare Winger Harris from Pasadena?  Dave Fox & Hal Curtis from Glendale? not to overlook Dr. Adolphe de Castro, 90-year-old survivor of the Lovecraft Circle? and many others?
   One could not have asked for a more graphic demonstration of the discrepancy between Laney-Burbee propaganda and things as they actually are.  Laney claims to stand behind everything he says, and I just wish I could get him to say “Atom Bomb!” He may stand behind what he says, alright, but it must be miles behind, because any resemblance to reality and so damn much of the muck he mouths is incredibly coincidental.  I just have to laff and laff and laff at the thot of Laney & Burbee and handful of fellow travelers blasting away at the LASFS  at the same time the LASFS was sponsoring a fine Banquet with a lot of well-known people urbanely enjoying themselves.  It could have been a fiasco, you know; nothing forced 38 fans and pros to pay $1.75 apiece to egoboo Th’ Ol’ Foo and endure Daugherty’s emceeing and my speechmaking.  Burbee & Laney are experts at recording Fictitious-But-Definitely accounts, all of Shaver, but their specious specimens of Fap-porting are, unlike Speer’s articles, unidentified as spurious.
   It would be ludicrous were it not pitiable, the Insurgents’ acceptance of Rog Phillips as one of their constituents.  One hates to see even enemies sink so low, to sacrifice their standards, to make lampooning of the LASFS their only criterion for acceptability in their circle.  Extrapolating from this springboard, it is not difficult to jump into the future and see Richard Shaver & Raymond Palmer being nominated Honorary Members of the Insurgents!
   Don’t confuse hysteria with history.  We at the LASFS realize we are slowly but surely driving the Insurgents snakepitty.  It is plain to be seen in their “analyses” of SHANGRI-LASFS #10, where emotion rears its fuggly head and fuggy frenzy is substituted for rational objectivity.  Shall I take you behind the scenes? We at the LASFS have found the perfect formula for frustrating the Insurgents: We simply officially ignore their snide cynicisms and go about our business of having good meetings and performing good works!  The Insurgents’ war on the LASFS, therefore, is one of the fleas on an elephant’s hide.  Towser & Burbee (the Toni Twinges) thrive on rebuttals, indignation, anger—and we deny them these stimulants*.  The Insurgents will fail as the ill-fated Knanves and Outsiders failed, and will not realize till they taste the bitter ashes in their mouths, that “hate is like burning down your house to kill a rat.” In this case, they have grown too big for their britches, and are burning their britches behind them.
	*therefore I am tearing this up after writing it, only mimeoing it so you can see what I  destroyed…

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witnesses to my statement---plus Bradbury---I and conjuring again. In that case you’ll just have to engage in a little correspondents yourself, to determine the facts. Consult the people who were there. If they weren’t there, then I’m a liar. Now, what I was going to say was: AE van Vogt & Edna Mayne Hull didn’t have to come to this affair; Bryce & Marsha Walton didn’t have to; Ray Bradbury was under no compulsion to mix socially with such social outcasts as Lasfassers are painted to be. And why did Rick Sneary come clear and from South Gate? Stan Woolston from Garden Grove? Clare Winger Harris from Pasadena? Dave Fox & Hal Curtis from Glendale? not to overlook Dr. Adolphe de Castro, 90-year-old survivor of the Lovecraft Circle? and many others? One could not have asked for a more graphic demonstration of the discrepancy between Laney-Burbee propaganda and things as they actually are. Laney claims to stand behind everything he says, and I just wish I could get him to say “Atom Bomb!” He may stand behind what he says, alright, but it must be miles behind, because any resemblance to reality and so damn much of the muck he mouths is incredibly coincidental. I just have to laff and laff and laff at the thot of Laney & Burbee and handful of fellow travelers blasting away at the LASFS at the same time the LASFS was sponsoring a fine Banquet with a lot of well-known people urbanely enjoying themselves. It could have been a fiasco, you know; nothing forced 38 fans and pros to pay $1.75 apiece to egoboo Th’ Ol’ Foo and endure Daugherty’s emceeing and my speechmaking. Burbee & Laney are experts at recording Fictitious-But-Definitely accounts, all of Shaver, but their specious specimens of Fap-porting are, unlike Speer’s articles, unidentified as spurious. It would be ludicrous were it not pitiable, the Insurgents’ acceptance of Rog Phillips as one of their constituents. One hates to see even enemies sink so low, to sacrifice their standards, to make lampooning of the LASFS their only criterion for acceptability in their circle. Extrapolating from this springboard, it is not difficult to jump into the future and see Richard Shaver & Raymond Palmer being nominated Honorary Members of the Insurgents! Don’t confuse hysteria with history. We at the LASFS realize we are slowly but surely driving the Insurgents snakepitty. It is plain to be seen in their “analyses” of SHANGRI-LASFS #10, where emotion rears its fuggly head and fuggy frenzy is substituted for rational objectivity. Shall I take you behind the scenes? We at the LASFS have found the perfect formula for frustrating the Insurgents: We simply officially ignore their snide cynicisms and go about our business of having good meetings and performing good works! The Insurgents’ war on the LASFS, therefore, is one of the fleas on an elephant’s hide. Towser & Burbee (the Toni Twinges) thrive on rebuttals, indignation, anger—and we deny them these stimulants*. The Insurgents will fail as the ill-fated Knanves and Outsiders failed, and will not realize till they taste the bitter ashes in their mouths, that “hate is like burning down your house to kill a rat.” In this case, they have grown too big for their britches, and are burning their britches behind them. *therefore I am tearing this up after writing it, only mimeoing it so you can see what I destroyed…