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Fan Slants, v. 1, issue 1, September 1943
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6.......................................................................FAN SLATS It has come to my attention that many fans are of the opinion that an s_f society which has been in existence for a comparitively long span of time must necessarily devolve into a social group. They maintain that an organization of the possibilities which science and fantasy fiction have to offer. This premise is one with which I cannot agree; it is the product of mental laziness, nothing else. As long as science-fiction continues, and as long as it has its fans, I see no reason fo[r] a fan organization to give up the ghost because "all of the possibilities have been exhausted". [line break] [title in large thin letters; title in smaller, cursive script] DA VINCI-CRACKPOT? by walt daugherty A RECENT notice in the Los Angeles papers tells of an exhibit that should be attended by every science-fictionest within decent traveling distance of the Pasadena Art Institute, 480 North Pasa Robles Avenue, Pasadena. It is an exhib-it of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. Before you turn up your nose and say, "Oh, he's that Fifteenth Century crackpot who painted some frail that he called the Mona Lisa". You're right there, brother, he did paint the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Virgin of the Rocks, and many others, but more than that, he was a Jules Verne and a Nostradamus all in one. The inventions that he cooked up that are still in use today will really stagger your imagination. Let me tell you a few of them: The "Mae West" inflatable life jacket is his ivention; the tank, the airplane, an automobile, rapid firing guns, pumps, triple gears, canal locks, mechanical saws, a submarine, looms, canal systems, a trip hammer, roller bearings drainage systems, a howitzer barrage, a model hygenic city, one could go like this for pages! Da Vinci had precise and beautiful drawings - all backward, the way in which he wrote all his specifications. He lived in no country where men were free to pursue such ideas. Men in his time were burned alive for less drastic ideas. There were plenty of men in the 15th Century who investigated scientific theorys, ideas, and the like, but Da Vinci was the type of man who wanted to get to the bottom of things and find out what made them tick. If the world had taken into consideration the ideas that Da Vinic put forth in his time the age of Autos, Tanks, Machine guns and Planes might have come in the 17th and 18th Centuries instead of the 20th.
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6.......................................................................FAN SLATS It has come to my attention that many fans are of the opinion that an s_f society which has been in existence for a comparitively long span of time must necessarily devolve into a social group. They maintain that an organization of the possibilities which science and fantasy fiction have to offer. This premise is one with which I cannot agree; it is the product of mental laziness, nothing else. As long as science-fiction continues, and as long as it has its fans, I see no reason fo[r] a fan organization to give up the ghost because "all of the possibilities have been exhausted". [line break] [title in large thin letters; title in smaller, cursive script] DA VINCI-CRACKPOT? by walt daugherty A RECENT notice in the Los Angeles papers tells of an exhibit that should be attended by every science-fictionest within decent traveling distance of the Pasadena Art Institute, 480 North Pasa Robles Avenue, Pasadena. It is an exhib-it of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. Before you turn up your nose and say, "Oh, he's that Fifteenth Century crackpot who painted some frail that he called the Mona Lisa". You're right there, brother, he did paint the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Virgin of the Rocks, and many others, but more than that, he was a Jules Verne and a Nostradamus all in one. The inventions that he cooked up that are still in use today will really stagger your imagination. Let me tell you a few of them: The "Mae West" inflatable life jacket is his ivention; the tank, the airplane, an automobile, rapid firing guns, pumps, triple gears, canal locks, mechanical saws, a submarine, looms, canal systems, a trip hammer, roller bearings drainage systems, a howitzer barrage, a model hygenic city, one could go like this for pages! Da Vinci had precise and beautiful drawings - all backward, the way in which he wrote all his specifications. He lived in no country where men were free to pursue such ideas. Men in his time were burned alive for less drastic ideas. There were plenty of men in the 15th Century who investigated scientific theorys, ideas, and the like, but Da Vinci was the type of man who wanted to get to the bottom of things and find out what made them tick. If the world had taken into consideration the ideas that Da Vinic put forth in his time the age of Autos, Tanks, Machine guns and Planes might have come in the 17th and 18th Centuries instead of the 20th.
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