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Alchemist, v. 1, issue 4, December 1940
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6 ----- ALCHEMIST ----- magazines, in the general field of fan activity, and in inter-fan correspondence. As with the case of David R. Daniels, his suicide has been noted briefly, then lightly passed over. No one, it seems, has cared or dared to wonder why, or to wonder what possible relation the trend in current science-fiction and world-affairs has, has had, and may have with suicidal tendencies and accomplishments among the various personalities active in the field. Admittedly a form of escape literature, despite its constructive and personality-expanding potentialities, the very ardour with which sensitive and intellectual young men and women throw themselves into fan-activity reveals unmistakably the fact that they do care a great deal about what is happening in the world of reality around them. Seemingly, science-fiction, as a pinnacle of intellectual literary creaticity, as a moderm mythology, expressing in symbolistic patterns the high water mark of the intellectual, emotinal, and physical ideals of this era, seemingly science-fiction should offer a haven and shelter for highly-sensitive persons, a sanctuary from whose folds they could view the world of reality unafraid and confident in the strength of their esoteric lore. Whatever social and economic disasters might come to pass without, those from within could stand upon an unyielding rock of crédo, cosmic in scope, unperturbed, believing in the vast potentialities of man, revealed to them through science-fiction, to filter through the hogwallow of drab reality-situations and the environment of the moment as a positive force, regardless how dissipated, driving all mankind slowly, but with godlike inevitability onward, forward to those goals visioned in part by the sciencefictionists. But persons imbued with such inner strength
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6 ----- ALCHEMIST ----- magazines, in the general field of fan activity, and in inter-fan correspondence. As with the case of David R. Daniels, his suicide has been noted briefly, then lightly passed over. No one, it seems, has cared or dared to wonder why, or to wonder what possible relation the trend in current science-fiction and world-affairs has, has had, and may have with suicidal tendencies and accomplishments among the various personalities active in the field. Admittedly a form of escape literature, despite its constructive and personality-expanding potentialities, the very ardour with which sensitive and intellectual young men and women throw themselves into fan-activity reveals unmistakably the fact that they do care a great deal about what is happening in the world of reality around them. Seemingly, science-fiction, as a pinnacle of intellectual literary creaticity, as a moderm mythology, expressing in symbolistic patterns the high water mark of the intellectual, emotinal, and physical ideals of this era, seemingly science-fiction should offer a haven and shelter for highly-sensitive persons, a sanctuary from whose folds they could view the world of reality unafraid and confident in the strength of their esoteric lore. Whatever social and economic disasters might come to pass without, those from within could stand upon an unyielding rock of crédo, cosmic in scope, unperturbed, believing in the vast potentialities of man, revealed to them through science-fiction, to filter through the hogwallow of drab reality-situations and the environment of the moment as a positive force, regardless how dissipated, driving all mankind slowly, but with godlike inevitability onward, forward to those goals visioned in part by the sciencefictionists. But persons imbued with such inner strength
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