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Fanfare, v. 1, issue 5, December 1940
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A Stranger Says: This is the second editorial I have written for this issue. The first, which I read at the Philco, is now as out-of-date as a science-fiction prediction for 1935. I was all wound up to make a convincing case against the Newarkon and when it fizzled out all by itself, I looked rather foolish. So -- I'm not repeating that mistake here. In case everyone hasn't heard by the time this sees light, Moskowitz and Sykora disclaimed all connection with a Newark or any sort of a conference in the coming year, and a later flash from the Solaroids says that they have also dropped all their plans for supporting an eastern conference. With the bottom dropping out altogether with the Solaroids, James V. Taurasi, who started all the hullaballoo, has also given up the idea, so there will be NO eastern conference, interfering with the Denvention or otherwise, between now and the next Philco. We can now give our undivided attention to DENVER IN 1941! So much for that. And no for something else I've wanted to get off my chest for a long time... It strikes me as being rather unusual, that for supposedly forward-looking people, fans can be so negatively minded and conservative. For example, when I was just starting my polls, a good many (especially the old-timers) fans, wished me luck but were very doubtful if I would get many votes. The author poll dragged in 160 votes -- practically a census of fandom, rather than a poll -- and more than twice as many votes as had ever been gathered before... I don't take credit for any super-industry or persuasiveness; it's just that one situation fits a given context and does not fit another, and that I had the colossal ignorance to believe that I would have no trouble in doing what I set out to do. Everybody who thinks about anything beyond the daily business of existing, should read Stuart Chase's Tyranny of Words. It could be called Tyranny of Thought. If more people learned about semanticathey might realise that there is more than one way to look at anything. There are as many ways as one can count if you care to go into it that far. An extremely minute portion of what Chase was driving at managed to seep into my gourd. It helped a lot, and I feel much better now. But to stop besting around the w.k. bush, I can't understand the negative attitude which perelates even into the wild and wooly, wide open spaces of fandom. I am attempting to start the NATIONAL FANTASY FAN FEDERATION. All
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A Stranger Says: This is the second editorial I have written for this issue. The first, which I read at the Philco, is now as out-of-date as a science-fiction prediction for 1935. I was all wound up to make a convincing case against the Newarkon and when it fizzled out all by itself, I looked rather foolish. So -- I'm not repeating that mistake here. In case everyone hasn't heard by the time this sees light, Moskowitz and Sykora disclaimed all connection with a Newark or any sort of a conference in the coming year, and a later flash from the Solaroids says that they have also dropped all their plans for supporting an eastern conference. With the bottom dropping out altogether with the Solaroids, James V. Taurasi, who started all the hullaballoo, has also given up the idea, so there will be NO eastern conference, interfering with the Denvention or otherwise, between now and the next Philco. We can now give our undivided attention to DENVER IN 1941! So much for that. And no for something else I've wanted to get off my chest for a long time... It strikes me as being rather unusual, that for supposedly forward-looking people, fans can be so negatively minded and conservative. For example, when I was just starting my polls, a good many (especially the old-timers) fans, wished me luck but were very doubtful if I would get many votes. The author poll dragged in 160 votes -- practically a census of fandom, rather than a poll -- and more than twice as many votes as had ever been gathered before... I don't take credit for any super-industry or persuasiveness; it's just that one situation fits a given context and does not fit another, and that I had the colossal ignorance to believe that I would have no trouble in doing what I set out to do. Everybody who thinks about anything beyond the daily business of existing, should read Stuart Chase's Tyranny of Words. It could be called Tyranny of Thought. If more people learned about semanticathey might realise that there is more than one way to look at anything. There are as many ways as one can count if you care to go into it that far. An extremely minute portion of what Chase was driving at managed to seep into my gourd. It helped a lot, and I feel much better now. But to stop besting around the w.k. bush, I can't understand the negative attitude which perelates even into the wild and wooly, wide open spaces of fandom. I am attempting to start the NATIONAL FANTASY FAN FEDERATION. All
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