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The Thing, whole no. 2, Summer 1946
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do. ((Whaddyawant..diagrams?)) And how easily, at that point, the picture could have been developed: ((Now, Burtie..)) Instead of: I mourned for angel-girls whose breasts swelled out chiffon.... she might have written I mourned for angel-girls whose breasts pillowed red passion.... and gone from there. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe she didn't really think of them as unvirginal, despite the title. ..BC EN GARDE October & January In October's, I liked the Slanshak evacuation story. Did you ever read a book called "Odtaa" (One Damned Thing After Another), which shows that a mere travel story without plot can be absorbing? And disliked the split infinitives.:: In the January number I read far enough to discover that the 5-cube has eighty edges, something like Helen when the copy is late getting across the Pacific. I am saving up vector space, linear dependence and intuitive verifications (my strong point ((mine, too)); I never got beyond differential calculus) until the mental miasma lifts. ((I "read" 'em..what does it all mean, daddy?)) ..BC VAPA MAILING Robert Bloch's "...but doth suffer..." in SCIENCE-FICTION is an easy-riding short story, impressive because of its simplicity. The scenes are not sufficiently dramatized and the plot is the old college humor discovery that the man was talking to a cow and not to his girl, but the whole effect is vaguely pleasing. :: Danner should write about six times as much for STEFANTASY. That would give him six times the chance to say amusing things. Then he should cut down to present length, eliminating the unfunny crud between the good cracks. He can write humorously but doesn't give himself a fair chance. ((What he means is that a large part of good writing is good editing.)) :: The worst example of deliberate obscurantism is "Romanticism and Survival" pubbed in RENASCENCE--and I read German, too. The obscurity is not a mere matter of abtruse vocabulary but of intentionally stuffy style. Comment: My palm lay on her pinguid spine. Her pudsy poll was pressed to mine, And, as we waltzed, she wildly ate Her puccoon-colored pullicate, Becaused we'd had not time to dine. ..BC ATRES ARTES No.2 Chenny sends some good material into a hectograph like a commander who orders his men to their massacre; though at that, AA is more legible than TNNFan.::Llewellyn's "The Hands" is a readily-accessible (to the 29 receiving AA!) example of the way dialogue--quotation marks and their human implications--can enliven a plot. The story has more reader-pull than Riggs' "The Bright Land." Watch those commas, Jack! :: The Cockroft in AA is not the only "Pickman's Model" I've seen,and arouses my curiosity: if this is a story, who wrote it and where can I get a copy? (Informaton only wanted, dearlers note.) ..HW
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do. ((Whaddyawant..diagrams?)) And how easily, at that point, the picture could have been developed: ((Now, Burtie..)) Instead of: I mourned for angel-girls whose breasts swelled out chiffon.... she might have written I mourned for angel-girls whose breasts pillowed red passion.... and gone from there. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe she didn't really think of them as unvirginal, despite the title. ..BC EN GARDE October & January In October's, I liked the Slanshak evacuation story. Did you ever read a book called "Odtaa" (One Damned Thing After Another), which shows that a mere travel story without plot can be absorbing? And disliked the split infinitives.:: In the January number I read far enough to discover that the 5-cube has eighty edges, something like Helen when the copy is late getting across the Pacific. I am saving up vector space, linear dependence and intuitive verifications (my strong point ((mine, too)); I never got beyond differential calculus) until the mental miasma lifts. ((I "read" 'em..what does it all mean, daddy?)) ..BC VAPA MAILING Robert Bloch's "...but doth suffer..." in SCIENCE-FICTION is an easy-riding short story, impressive because of its simplicity. The scenes are not sufficiently dramatized and the plot is the old college humor discovery that the man was talking to a cow and not to his girl, but the whole effect is vaguely pleasing. :: Danner should write about six times as much for STEFANTASY. That would give him six times the chance to say amusing things. Then he should cut down to present length, eliminating the unfunny crud between the good cracks. He can write humorously but doesn't give himself a fair chance. ((What he means is that a large part of good writing is good editing.)) :: The worst example of deliberate obscurantism is "Romanticism and Survival" pubbed in RENASCENCE--and I read German, too. The obscurity is not a mere matter of abtruse vocabulary but of intentionally stuffy style. Comment: My palm lay on her pinguid spine. Her pudsy poll was pressed to mine, And, as we waltzed, she wildly ate Her puccoon-colored pullicate, Becaused we'd had not time to dine. ..BC ATRES ARTES No.2 Chenny sends some good material into a hectograph like a commander who orders his men to their massacre; though at that, AA is more legible than TNNFan.::Llewellyn's "The Hands" is a readily-accessible (to the 29 receiving AA!) example of the way dialogue--quotation marks and their human implications--can enliven a plot. The story has more reader-pull than Riggs' "The Bright Land." Watch those commas, Jack! :: The Cockroft in AA is not the only "Pickman's Model" I've seen,and arouses my curiosity: if this is a story, who wrote it and where can I get a copy? (Informaton only wanted, dearlers note.) ..HW
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