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Fantascience Digest, v. 1, issue 5, July-August 1938
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Page 10 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST ************* A noted mathematician, Eric Frank Russell, considered by many a Wonder, stopped at a hotel in a city in Texas. As usual, in such places, there were a number of s-f amateur writers on hand; there was also a meeting of some s-f fans at the place, who used the hotel as headquarters. One of the fans thot it would be quite a joke tot ell the mathematician that some of these dopes had concluded to kidnap him and extract his brains to discover just hwy he was so good in mathematics. He was then asked by them what he would do about it. He replied: "Why, I shall simply go on without brains, just as you s-f fans are doing." ************** An amateur artist, Dale Hart, contributed a painting to Enigmatic Tales, Percy T. Wilkinson's handwritten magazine, for the first time. With natural curiosity he asked the carrier, "Did you see my picture safely delivered?" "Indeed I did " replied the man, " and mighty pleased they seemed to be with it--leastways, if I may judge[[?]], sir. They didn't say nothin', but, Lor'! How they did laugh when they got a light on it!" **************** By the way, do you know that "Beyond the Vanishing Point," by Ray Cummings in a 1931 issue of Astounding Stories was a reprint? I recall reading it in 1924 or 1925; I am not sure, but I think it was in Argosy. It was printed at about the same time as "Tarzan and the Ant Men." **************** Did you know that the three ages of man are: illusion, Delusion and Allusion? **************** If you want to add your knowledge of Michelism, read "The Adopted Child" by elanor Gallagher----For those amateur s-f writers; "How to Worry Successfully" by David Seabury----So pervading is our fad for streamlined gadgets that I suppose you had better read the book, "Art and the Machine" by Sheldon and Martha Candler Cheney ----To Sam Moskowitz and Donald A. Wollheim: Both of you should read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. ************** If you dont' like this article, stick a match to it after you have crumpled it in tight wads so that it will not just go FooFoo! **************** The brief article below is dedicated to Richard Wilson, Jr. It is not an s-f yarn, but it applies to fantasy, no doubt. Only to test Dick's vocabulary: Miss Mary was the possessor of a diminutive and unmtature specimen of the genus Ovis Aries, a wool-bearing and ruminant quadruped whose flesh is highly esteemed by persons to whose gustatory organs its flavor is agreeable. The shaggyand agglomerated filaments constituting in their collective capacity its natural outer covering, integument, or garment presented to the vision a surface absolutely etiolated and algified and rivalling in immaculateness the lustrous mantle of crystalized vapor that commonly characterizes withe winter landscape/. **************** Thash all, frensh.Station WHOO-OO-O signin' off.... COMET PUBLICATIONS The Science Fiction Collector Fantascience Digest Science-Adventure Stories Imaginative Fiction
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Page 10 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST ************* A noted mathematician, Eric Frank Russell, considered by many a Wonder, stopped at a hotel in a city in Texas. As usual, in such places, there were a number of s-f amateur writers on hand; there was also a meeting of some s-f fans at the place, who used the hotel as headquarters. One of the fans thot it would be quite a joke tot ell the mathematician that some of these dopes had concluded to kidnap him and extract his brains to discover just hwy he was so good in mathematics. He was then asked by them what he would do about it. He replied: "Why, I shall simply go on without brains, just as you s-f fans are doing." ************** An amateur artist, Dale Hart, contributed a painting to Enigmatic Tales, Percy T. Wilkinson's handwritten magazine, for the first time. With natural curiosity he asked the carrier, "Did you see my picture safely delivered?" "Indeed I did " replied the man, " and mighty pleased they seemed to be with it--leastways, if I may judge[[?]], sir. They didn't say nothin', but, Lor'! How they did laugh when they got a light on it!" **************** By the way, do you know that "Beyond the Vanishing Point," by Ray Cummings in a 1931 issue of Astounding Stories was a reprint? I recall reading it in 1924 or 1925; I am not sure, but I think it was in Argosy. It was printed at about the same time as "Tarzan and the Ant Men." **************** Did you know that the three ages of man are: illusion, Delusion and Allusion? **************** If you want to add your knowledge of Michelism, read "The Adopted Child" by elanor Gallagher----For those amateur s-f writers; "How to Worry Successfully" by David Seabury----So pervading is our fad for streamlined gadgets that I suppose you had better read the book, "Art and the Machine" by Sheldon and Martha Candler Cheney ----To Sam Moskowitz and Donald A. Wollheim: Both of you should read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. ************** If you dont' like this article, stick a match to it after you have crumpled it in tight wads so that it will not just go FooFoo! **************** The brief article below is dedicated to Richard Wilson, Jr. It is not an s-f yarn, but it applies to fantasy, no doubt. Only to test Dick's vocabulary: Miss Mary was the possessor of a diminutive and unmtature specimen of the genus Ovis Aries, a wool-bearing and ruminant quadruped whose flesh is highly esteemed by persons to whose gustatory organs its flavor is agreeable. The shaggyand agglomerated filaments constituting in their collective capacity its natural outer covering, integument, or garment presented to the vision a surface absolutely etiolated and algified and rivalling in immaculateness the lustrous mantle of crystalized vapor that commonly characterizes withe winter landscape/. **************** Thash all, frensh.Station WHOO-OO-O signin' off.... COMET PUBLICATIONS The Science Fiction Collector Fantascience Digest Science-Adventure Stories Imaginative Fiction
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