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Banshee, whole no. 5, June 1944
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22 * * * Banshee deciphered the note about perspective, by the way. THE S-F DEMOCRAT: I'll take all the sex Laney and his ilk have to offer in preference to this kind of thing. "Bad Taste" doesn't seem strong enough. Jack, I like and admire you, but this peculiar warp in your mentality is just the sort of thing that holds back progress--and that gives rise to Hitlers. And renegade Negroes. XENON is a very neat little job indeed; the material could be a little better, but I have no real complaint. Methinks Mr. Rouze may be a valuable addition to our ranks. I'm looking forward to future issues. Then there is Ackerman, with a page of much-appreciated photos decorating his first real fanzine since I joined some years back. Good. But you know what I think of the nudes. Oh, yes, I just noticed that Conover in the pic is holding the issues of Argosy beginning "Tama, Princess of Mercury" and "The Snake Mother"--and I ant to take my stand in favor of Stahr's Adana as opposed to the much-prainsed creation of Finlay. Any sharers of this opinion? BLITHERINGS: this is worth reading; too bad the faint mimeoing made it such and effort. What Saville Sax has to say about industrial reorganization is essentially syndicalism. There's a bad flaw in his reasoning, or else in mine: the assumption that unions can "get control of the key executive posts." The amount of effort necessary to get the owners to consent to sucg goings-on would be more than sufficient to overthrow the capitalist class entirely and set up a socialist state. Why not go the whole hog, then? I too liked "Flesh and Fantasy" very much, but the stories impressed me as very ancient indeed; the music was above-average, the acting very competent, and--the photography--ahhhh! This contraction of "tion" to "n" merely irritates me. The Statement of the Futurian Society of New York strikes me as wishful thinking. Degler is not honest; moreover, he is becoming more and more clearly defined as completely irresponsible, not to say immoral. And not all Raym's well-meant gestures can make attractive an organization consisting mainly of Degler and his--er--women. Let's get behind the NFFF instead. And another Futurian publication: AGENBITE OF INWIT. Lowndes in a humorous vein is--or was, in The Reader Speaks and Brass Tacks--a favorite of mine. But "Trigger-Talk at Green Guna" goes over my head so often that I don't get very much out of it. Which, of course, is not Doc's fault. As I indicated in my last installment (still unpublished as I write this!). I too found some things in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" disappointing, but to my mind the strong things in it make up for that. Nor do I see the necessity for considering it as an introduction to Lovecraft. As for the location of Kadath, Lovecraft did seem to regard the world of dreams as having objective reality (in his stories, that is); and in "At the Mountains of Madness," it is merely suggested that Kadath lies beyond the city of the Old Ones. It really doesn't matter, in any event. So Doc is Carol Grey? If I say I knew it all along, you won't believe me; but I did just the same. I have that recording of "Les Preludes" you recommend; not on Columbia, however. Seems Decca got ahold of the master disk and made their own pressing, which is what I have. The amazing parts come during the last half, as I recall; the beginning is not outstanding. The music itself is very entertaining, as the work's popularity attests; but most critics turn up their noses at it, for it is rather on the crude side--comparison with Wagner may be made on the basis that Wagner was much influence by Liszt, but Wagner "at his best" as you put it) is so
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22 * * * Banshee deciphered the note about perspective, by the way. THE S-F DEMOCRAT: I'll take all the sex Laney and his ilk have to offer in preference to this kind of thing. "Bad Taste" doesn't seem strong enough. Jack, I like and admire you, but this peculiar warp in your mentality is just the sort of thing that holds back progress--and that gives rise to Hitlers. And renegade Negroes. XENON is a very neat little job indeed; the material could be a little better, but I have no real complaint. Methinks Mr. Rouze may be a valuable addition to our ranks. I'm looking forward to future issues. Then there is Ackerman, with a page of much-appreciated photos decorating his first real fanzine since I joined some years back. Good. But you know what I think of the nudes. Oh, yes, I just noticed that Conover in the pic is holding the issues of Argosy beginning "Tama, Princess of Mercury" and "The Snake Mother"--and I ant to take my stand in favor of Stahr's Adana as opposed to the much-prainsed creation of Finlay. Any sharers of this opinion? BLITHERINGS: this is worth reading; too bad the faint mimeoing made it such and effort. What Saville Sax has to say about industrial reorganization is essentially syndicalism. There's a bad flaw in his reasoning, or else in mine: the assumption that unions can "get control of the key executive posts." The amount of effort necessary to get the owners to consent to sucg goings-on would be more than sufficient to overthrow the capitalist class entirely and set up a socialist state. Why not go the whole hog, then? I too liked "Flesh and Fantasy" very much, but the stories impressed me as very ancient indeed; the music was above-average, the acting very competent, and--the photography--ahhhh! This contraction of "tion" to "n" merely irritates me. The Statement of the Futurian Society of New York strikes me as wishful thinking. Degler is not honest; moreover, he is becoming more and more clearly defined as completely irresponsible, not to say immoral. And not all Raym's well-meant gestures can make attractive an organization consisting mainly of Degler and his--er--women. Let's get behind the NFFF instead. And another Futurian publication: AGENBITE OF INWIT. Lowndes in a humorous vein is--or was, in The Reader Speaks and Brass Tacks--a favorite of mine. But "Trigger-Talk at Green Guna" goes over my head so often that I don't get very much out of it. Which, of course, is not Doc's fault. As I indicated in my last installment (still unpublished as I write this!). I too found some things in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" disappointing, but to my mind the strong things in it make up for that. Nor do I see the necessity for considering it as an introduction to Lovecraft. As for the location of Kadath, Lovecraft did seem to regard the world of dreams as having objective reality (in his stories, that is); and in "At the Mountains of Madness," it is merely suggested that Kadath lies beyond the city of the Old Ones. It really doesn't matter, in any event. So Doc is Carol Grey? If I say I knew it all along, you won't believe me; but I did just the same. I have that recording of "Les Preludes" you recommend; not on Columbia, however. Seems Decca got ahold of the master disk and made their own pressing, which is what I have. The amazing parts come during the last half, as I recall; the beginning is not outstanding. The music itself is very entertaining, as the work's popularity attests; but most critics turn up their noses at it, for it is rather on the crude side--comparison with Wagner may be made on the basis that Wagner was much influence by Liszt, but Wagner "at his best" as you put it) is so
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