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Fandango, v. 2, issue 3, whole no. 7, Winter 1944
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typer's running away with him. Despite the occasional oddments in diction and spelling, his angry blast at Shaw contains a core of goo hard, undeniable fact that is going to make it difficult if not impossible for Shaw to controvert. As is well known, JF and I have not always been on the best of terms; I have at times in the past attacked him myself for one reason or another; but in this instance he is certainly in the right, and, I believe, has an apology coming from our hasty, if consciencious, OE. ----oo0oo---- CUSHLAMOCHREE (The unnumbered, post mailed on on the pink paper). It is Walt's wish that this be considered with the current mailing, rather than with the one this issue of Fan-Dango is appearing in; I am inclined to frown on this fact, for it gives us a mag commenting on the same mailing in which it appears. However, I'm tickled to see Walt becoming more active in FAPA, and realise that he could scarcely help himself when he mailed it out so precipitously. I've not as yet seen anyone get such a boot out of a FAPA mailing, or have so much enthusiastic fun in getting out an immediate contribution himself. I hope that such enthusiasm is rewarded by something more than a lot of nasty remarks about his jumping the gun, for this spirit of "do it now" is what FAPA (and the rest of fandom too) needs badly. ----oo0oo---- FANTASY COMMENTATOR. A. Langley Searles is giving us some extremely solid and worthwhile material. This being the case, it is all the more regrettable to see him making such a threat as his statement that he will turn any questionable material in FAPA over to the Postmaster General. In the first place, as should be well known to all of us, the narrow-minded and puritanical standards of a pack of moronic public "servants" are scarcely those which any civilized human being would care to adopt. To us in FAPA, members of a small and highly select private group, the having of these standards rammed willy-nilly down our throats by one of our own number should be enraging in the extreme. I know absolutely nothing about Searles personally. I've had some three or four letters from him, a couple of post cards, and have read three issues of his magazine. The impression I have gathered is not a flattering one. Seamless, apparently likes scarcely anything. He seems to be one of these people who feels so marvelously superior to the rest of us that he thinks we are receiving a vast and mighty boon when we are permitted to associate with him. Such delusions of grandeur are laughable except when they threaten the existence of our organization, but I can scarcely fell that even Mr. Searles' admittedly great contributions to fantasy bibliography can counterbalance this crude and obnoxious attempt at dictatorship and censorship. I have little doubt but that he would carry out his threat. If he did so, the chances are that FAPA would be banned from the mails--heck, they even banned Esquire!--and I for one would hate to see our organization sacrificed to the petty malice of Mr. Searles or anyone else. If our mailings are as distasteful to him as his action would indicate, I should like respectfully to suggest that he resign. There has been plenty of stuff in FAPA that I've not liked; I've never been backward in saying so. If the mailings ever become something I dislike entirely, or to such an extent that I'd be tempted to do anything as loathsomely snide and underhanded as to pull a Searles; I promise an immediate resignation. It so happens that--whatever my faults--I do not feel arrogant enough to attempt to dictate to my 64 fellow members. I am inclined to agree with -- 13 --
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typer's running away with him. Despite the occasional oddments in diction and spelling, his angry blast at Shaw contains a core of goo hard, undeniable fact that is going to make it difficult if not impossible for Shaw to controvert. As is well known, JF and I have not always been on the best of terms; I have at times in the past attacked him myself for one reason or another; but in this instance he is certainly in the right, and, I believe, has an apology coming from our hasty, if consciencious, OE. ----oo0oo---- CUSHLAMOCHREE (The unnumbered, post mailed on on the pink paper). It is Walt's wish that this be considered with the current mailing, rather than with the one this issue of Fan-Dango is appearing in; I am inclined to frown on this fact, for it gives us a mag commenting on the same mailing in which it appears. However, I'm tickled to see Walt becoming more active in FAPA, and realise that he could scarcely help himself when he mailed it out so precipitously. I've not as yet seen anyone get such a boot out of a FAPA mailing, or have so much enthusiastic fun in getting out an immediate contribution himself. I hope that such enthusiasm is rewarded by something more than a lot of nasty remarks about his jumping the gun, for this spirit of "do it now" is what FAPA (and the rest of fandom too) needs badly. ----oo0oo---- FANTASY COMMENTATOR. A. Langley Searles is giving us some extremely solid and worthwhile material. This being the case, it is all the more regrettable to see him making such a threat as his statement that he will turn any questionable material in FAPA over to the Postmaster General. In the first place, as should be well known to all of us, the narrow-minded and puritanical standards of a pack of moronic public "servants" are scarcely those which any civilized human being would care to adopt. To us in FAPA, members of a small and highly select private group, the having of these standards rammed willy-nilly down our throats by one of our own number should be enraging in the extreme. I know absolutely nothing about Searles personally. I've had some three or four letters from him, a couple of post cards, and have read three issues of his magazine. The impression I have gathered is not a flattering one. Seamless, apparently likes scarcely anything. He seems to be one of these people who feels so marvelously superior to the rest of us that he thinks we are receiving a vast and mighty boon when we are permitted to associate with him. Such delusions of grandeur are laughable except when they threaten the existence of our organization, but I can scarcely fell that even Mr. Searles' admittedly great contributions to fantasy bibliography can counterbalance this crude and obnoxious attempt at dictatorship and censorship. I have little doubt but that he would carry out his threat. If he did so, the chances are that FAPA would be banned from the mails--heck, they even banned Esquire!--and I for one would hate to see our organization sacrificed to the petty malice of Mr. Searles or anyone else. If our mailings are as distasteful to him as his action would indicate, I should like respectfully to suggest that he resign. There has been plenty of stuff in FAPA that I've not liked; I've never been backward in saying so. If the mailings ever become something I dislike entirely, or to such an extent that I'd be tempted to do anything as loathsomely snide and underhanded as to pull a Searles; I promise an immediate resignation. It so happens that--whatever my faults--I do not feel arrogant enough to attempt to dictate to my 64 fellow members. I am inclined to agree with -- 13 --
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