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Banshee, whole no. 5, June 1944
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20 * * * Banshee attractive, but how does one go about popularizing such a word? Methinks it sneaks into one's vocabulary, probably in war time, like "camoflage," or it doesn't get in at all. Cabell tried to put over some new (or possibly extinct) hybrids such as "desiderate" and "mundivagant," but despite his quondam popularity they're still in no one's vocabulary but his. YHOS gets better and better; it's a crying shame Art had to go into the lumbo of army life. The spelling is even wilder than Ackermanese. What's the idea--Space-saving? Gardner on slans fascinating; no comment, whatever a Ph. D. says is jake with me. I'm surprised to find Art taking Slan Center so seriously. When it was first proposed, I myself found it very attractive, but too suggestive of the w.k. ivory tower. I now consider it positively grotesque--not just the idea of so many wildly individualistic persons tearing each other's hair out and jabbing thumbs in eyes, but the psychological effects of exalting s-f to such an important role in one's life. Let's not get in over our heads! The suggestion of "imaginist" as a substitute for "fan" is the best yet, but "imag" is perfectly vile (try saying it aloud with a straight face!). And even "imaginist" is a trifle clumsy. I'll take it rather than "stefnist," but prefer to take neither. Further suggestions are in order. I've been wracking my brains trying to place "paleema habby fee," without success--- it [illegible] "policemen have big feet" (in case any of your were wondering), but out of whose tortured brain was it evolved? I think I smell de Camp, or is it Weinbaum? FLEETING MOMENTS is lovely to look at.... AHA! The cream of the mailing! To what do I refer? Why, but of course--THE NUCLEUS! If not neat, at least legible (save for the title of something by one Paul Spencer, who, come to think of it, gave this tale a subtitle one Gertrude Kuslan omitted, perhaps mercifully). And what Trudy says is very well worth reading. It is really astonishing the way that girl's mind has grown in the past couple of years. She was, as the saying has it, no slouch when I first met her, back in '41, but she has progressed in mental seven-league-boots since then. I've already given her my comments on her remarks of this issue; they amount to unqualified approval, with special cheers for the splendid paragraph on hatred. Incidentally, when I visited Trudy recenrly she informed me that she is aware of the difference between "clique" and "cliche," but failed to noticed she'd been using the wrong word until the stencil was finished. Nontheless, I'm still snickering, in my cruel way. Fan fiction is generally not too hot; BEYOND holds its own in that field, and is perhaps slightly above average. Let's have more. This suggests one irritating thing about the FAPA--something inherent in its nature, and hence unchangeable: as a medium for circulating one's writings it is too limited. For example, I have written only two fantastic stories in the past couple of years, but quite a number of relatively conventional tales which I'd like to publish. But much as I'd like to set them before the eyes of so intelligent an audience as the FAPA, that may not be. I weep. It is your part to rejoice. FAN-TODS is another of the major items in every mailing. Incidentally, somehwere in "Life on the Mississippo," Mark Twain says he "Doesn't care a fantod-" for something or other. This implies that whatever they are, there of little value. But if Stanley's mag is any criterion, the old boy was, as we moderns say, off the beam. I am fanatically devoted to "Yesterday's 10,000 years," can't get enough of it. Someday when I have time I'd like to make up a guest column, if Norm's interested--I've got some dillies all picked out. Fen? I don't
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20 * * * Banshee attractive, but how does one go about popularizing such a word? Methinks it sneaks into one's vocabulary, probably in war time, like "camoflage," or it doesn't get in at all. Cabell tried to put over some new (or possibly extinct) hybrids such as "desiderate" and "mundivagant," but despite his quondam popularity they're still in no one's vocabulary but his. YHOS gets better and better; it's a crying shame Art had to go into the lumbo of army life. The spelling is even wilder than Ackermanese. What's the idea--Space-saving? Gardner on slans fascinating; no comment, whatever a Ph. D. says is jake with me. I'm surprised to find Art taking Slan Center so seriously. When it was first proposed, I myself found it very attractive, but too suggestive of the w.k. ivory tower. I now consider it positively grotesque--not just the idea of so many wildly individualistic persons tearing each other's hair out and jabbing thumbs in eyes, but the psychological effects of exalting s-f to such an important role in one's life. Let's not get in over our heads! The suggestion of "imaginist" as a substitute for "fan" is the best yet, but "imag" is perfectly vile (try saying it aloud with a straight face!). And even "imaginist" is a trifle clumsy. I'll take it rather than "stefnist," but prefer to take neither. Further suggestions are in order. I've been wracking my brains trying to place "paleema habby fee," without success--- it [illegible] "policemen have big feet" (in case any of your were wondering), but out of whose tortured brain was it evolved? I think I smell de Camp, or is it Weinbaum? FLEETING MOMENTS is lovely to look at.... AHA! The cream of the mailing! To what do I refer? Why, but of course--THE NUCLEUS! If not neat, at least legible (save for the title of something by one Paul Spencer, who, come to think of it, gave this tale a subtitle one Gertrude Kuslan omitted, perhaps mercifully). And what Trudy says is very well worth reading. It is really astonishing the way that girl's mind has grown in the past couple of years. She was, as the saying has it, no slouch when I first met her, back in '41, but she has progressed in mental seven-league-boots since then. I've already given her my comments on her remarks of this issue; they amount to unqualified approval, with special cheers for the splendid paragraph on hatred. Incidentally, when I visited Trudy recenrly she informed me that she is aware of the difference between "clique" and "cliche," but failed to noticed she'd been using the wrong word until the stencil was finished. Nontheless, I'm still snickering, in my cruel way. Fan fiction is generally not too hot; BEYOND holds its own in that field, and is perhaps slightly above average. Let's have more. This suggests one irritating thing about the FAPA--something inherent in its nature, and hence unchangeable: as a medium for circulating one's writings it is too limited. For example, I have written only two fantastic stories in the past couple of years, but quite a number of relatively conventional tales which I'd like to publish. But much as I'd like to set them before the eyes of so intelligent an audience as the FAPA, that may not be. I weep. It is your part to rejoice. FAN-TODS is another of the major items in every mailing. Incidentally, somehwere in "Life on the Mississippo," Mark Twain says he "Doesn't care a fantod-" for something or other. This implies that whatever they are, there of little value. But if Stanley's mag is any criterion, the old boy was, as we moderns say, off the beam. I am fanatically devoted to "Yesterday's 10,000 years," can't get enough of it. Someday when I have time I'd like to make up a guest column, if Norm's interested--I've got some dillies all picked out. Fen? I don't
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