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Fantods, whole no. 9, Winter 1945

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page 20  EFTY-NINE

For Efty-8 I used a half & half mixture of Sears with an aristocratic brand that cost me $2.50 per lb. (yipe!) and it worked purty good. And now you are gazing at Efty-9 which is done in $2.50 blue alone onacccounta I neglected to get any more Sears blue to mix with it. Funny about Sears' inks -- their black is excellent, but their colors are punk. There may be a "By-ways" this time, if I can write it in a hurry. The sands run low! But a whole issue of that stuff -- gad, if you but knew how I loathed that article by the time I finally got it half-way presentable! The foreword to "Captain Sparrow" in my copy consists of three short paragraphs -- nine lines altogether. Check you? 

FAN-TODS: I have about decided that cover wasn't so bad, arter all. (Curse you, WD, for agreeing with my previous decision!) The perspective woulda been better, I think, if the CRT had been pointed the other way (ie, with screen at bottom). I am amazed, though, that I ever succeeded in salvaging that stencil after what I did to it. Inner contents, 'cept for LRC, were subpar, methunk. Bad effect of doing everything in a hurry at last minute, just as I'm doing this issue, too. 

THE MAD MUSE: The perfection of Watson's mimeoing and binding continues to amaze me. The verses? Uh...yet unread. 

BY AN ANONYMOUS CIVILIAN: Ah, Rare Will Watson. Pardon, please, while I stop momentarily to delight. 

FANTASY COMMENTATORs: Put me down for any and all biblio sheets issued separately. I'll pay postage, or whatever's asked, on receipt, though I think tossing them in the FAPA mailings would be more practical. Which is more valuable, the extra paper used or the time required for separate addressing and mailing? Then, too, we could get them unfolded in the mailings.....Moskowitz brings back some fond memories: I am surprised to find L. Taylor Hanson referred to as a woman. Ever see his portrait? ...The Hodgson material gets a vote for top article this mailing. 
Keep it clean, kiddies, or Searles will dashing well have us all sent to Coventry! 

FAPA VARIETY: Hey, Boob, I'll swap ya the March 1938 Astounding Stories for that second Amazing Annual. 

WALT'S WRAMBLINGS: "Rosebud is a six letter word..." How's that, agin, Bub?

A TALE OF THE 'EVANS: Captain-pilot Denglos' distinction between weight and mass is interesting. Suppose an asteroid had a million tons mass and only 500,000 tons weight: Would it be heavy for its weight or light for its mass? .....I thought it unwise to pick my anthology of the worstef from the latter-day Amazings. Rap might not like it......There's not much profit, I feel, in debating further about the International Organization, since we're apparently not greatly in disagreement. And organization of separate, sovereign states isn't as good as a unified world state, but it is probably the best we can hope for until closer cultural relations have burned the nationalism virus out of us. And we may not even get the former this time; right now the trend seems back to good old "realism" and its concomitant game of power politics. 

(this is almost the end, folks; just a few more drippings on page 26)

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page 20 EFTY-NINE For Efty-8 I used a half & half mixture of Sears with an aristocratic brand that cost me $2.50 per lb. (yipe!) and it worked purty good. And now you are gazing at Efty-9 which is done in $2.50 blue alone onacccounta I neglected to get any more Sears blue to mix with it. Funny about Sears' inks -- their black is excellent, but their colors are punk. There may be a "By-ways" this time, if I can write it in a hurry. The sands run low! But a whole issue of that stuff -- gad, if you but knew how I loathed that article by the time I finally got it half-way presentable! The foreword to "Captain Sparrow" in my copy consists of three short paragraphs -- nine lines altogether. Check you? FAN-TODS: I have about decided that cover wasn't so bad, arter all. (Curse you, WD, for agreeing with my previous decision!) The perspective woulda been better, I think, if the CRT had been pointed the other way (ie, with screen at bottom). I am amazed, though, that I ever succeeded in salvaging that stencil after what I did to it. Inner contents, 'cept for LRC, were subpar, methunk. Bad effect of doing everything in a hurry at last minute, just as I'm doing this issue, too. THE MAD MUSE: The perfection of Watson's mimeoing and binding continues to amaze me. The verses? Uh...yet unread. BY AN ANONYMOUS CIVILIAN: Ah, Rare Will Watson. Pardon, please, while I stop momentarily to delight. FANTASY COMMENTATORs: Put me down for any and all biblio sheets issued separately. I'll pay postage, or whatever's asked, on receipt, though I think tossing them in the FAPA mailings would be more practical. Which is more valuable, the extra paper used or the time required for separate addressing and mailing? Then, too, we could get them unfolded in the mailings.....Moskowitz brings back some fond memories: I am surprised to find L. Taylor Hanson referred to as a woman. Ever see his portrait? ...The Hodgson material gets a vote for top article this mailing. Keep it clean, kiddies, or Searles will dashing well have us all sent to Coventry! FAPA VARIETY: Hey, Boob, I'll swap ya the March 1938 Astounding Stories for that second Amazing Annual. WALT'S WRAMBLINGS: "Rosebud is a six letter word..." How's that, agin, Bub? A TALE OF THE 'EVANS: Captain-pilot Denglos' distinction between weight and mass is interesting. Suppose an asteroid had a million tons mass and only 500,000 tons weight: Would it be heavy for its weight or light for its mass? .....I thought it unwise to pick my anthology of the worstef from the latter-day Amazings. Rap might not like it......There's not much profit, I feel, in debating further about the International Organization, since we're apparently not greatly in disagreement. And organization of separate, sovereign states isn't as good as a unified world state, but it is probably the best we can hope for until closer cultural relations have burned the nationalism virus out of us. And we may not even get the former this time; right now the trend seems back to good old "realism" and its concomitant game of power politics. (this is almost the end, folks; just a few more drippings on page 26)