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Last Testament, issue 18, December 1941
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needed only to feed it a little on Unknown and Merritt tales. None but Lucifer. Darker Than You Think, and Death's Deputy all hit pretty close to the right spot but it was Fear that really did the trick. It was the first pulp fantasy I liked without reservations (unless I read The Snake Mother earlier -- at any rate, they were the first two). After Fear, I began to haunt the newsstand for Unknown and Joe formally pronounced me a finished product at the next meeting of the Columbia Camp. I wrote letters to three famous fans proclaiming the fact then added them to my imposing collection of unmailed correspondence. Nevertheless, the reading of Fear did not mark my wholehearted acceptance of fandom, Joe to the contrary. It was the Denvention that made me determined for the first time to step into the fan activities. I participated somewhat feebly in the first issue of the SOUTHERN STAR, chiefly when mailing time came. But as soon as it was out, I proposed a forty page second issue for a dime and, with Harry's help, persuaded him to try it. I financed it but again didn't help much with the work. My name appeared as poetry editor in this issue, tho, and made my head swell somewhat. (The story of this editorship is too long to go into here but will certainly have to be told someday.) What with the STAR and the Denvention and Unknown and the beginnings of a fan correspondence, I felt pretty good about the whole thing at this time and was carried along temporarily on a wave of self-enthusiasm. This was in a way the high point of all my meagre participation in fandom although I wasn't really doing anything yet. I derived more pleasure from anticipating future activities in the two months prior to the Denvention than I ever expect to get from the doing. It couldn't last and didn't. A series of unfortunate incidents turned my interests toward other things. The reaction was violent and ended in my total withdrawal from fandom. I drew into a shell -- made of disappointment -- and called it discovery. But that is another story. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Zeno of Elea was regarded as the inventor of "dialectic disputation" -- i.e. having for its end not victory but the discovery of truth. From The Reader and Collector -- Vol. II, No. 3 -- We like the second paragraph of Still Another Man's Viewpoint. ---- Yes, Koenig, you still gripe Joe. ---- In an SC court, a deputy marshall was crying the court before an imported judge on the morning of December 2, '41. He was having considerable trouble with the language of the official blurb and when he came to the section where it reads somewhat as follows: "God saves the bloo-blach-bloo country and this honorable court"; he decided to simplify it a little. Before a hushed audience he read: "God save this court." Chaos followed the judge who laughed till the tears came. ---- Especially we like La Crème de la Crème in the fall, '41 issue of Sardonyx. 'Twas by Trudy. But, oh, how she hurt us: "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" when the terrible truth comes out so forthrightly in almost legible script for all to see. ---- We like Whacky, Vol. 1, No. 1, and wanna see more of it altho we prefer black hair to golden and are allergic to cement floors. ---- Elmer Perdue ---- "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Ozymandias -- Shelley
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needed only to feed it a little on Unknown and Merritt tales. None but Lucifer. Darker Than You Think, and Death's Deputy all hit pretty close to the right spot but it was Fear that really did the trick. It was the first pulp fantasy I liked without reservations (unless I read The Snake Mother earlier -- at any rate, they were the first two). After Fear, I began to haunt the newsstand for Unknown and Joe formally pronounced me a finished product at the next meeting of the Columbia Camp. I wrote letters to three famous fans proclaiming the fact then added them to my imposing collection of unmailed correspondence. Nevertheless, the reading of Fear did not mark my wholehearted acceptance of fandom, Joe to the contrary. It was the Denvention that made me determined for the first time to step into the fan activities. I participated somewhat feebly in the first issue of the SOUTHERN STAR, chiefly when mailing time came. But as soon as it was out, I proposed a forty page second issue for a dime and, with Harry's help, persuaded him to try it. I financed it but again didn't help much with the work. My name appeared as poetry editor in this issue, tho, and made my head swell somewhat. (The story of this editorship is too long to go into here but will certainly have to be told someday.) What with the STAR and the Denvention and Unknown and the beginnings of a fan correspondence, I felt pretty good about the whole thing at this time and was carried along temporarily on a wave of self-enthusiasm. This was in a way the high point of all my meagre participation in fandom although I wasn't really doing anything yet. I derived more pleasure from anticipating future activities in the two months prior to the Denvention than I ever expect to get from the doing. It couldn't last and didn't. A series of unfortunate incidents turned my interests toward other things. The reaction was violent and ended in my total withdrawal from fandom. I drew into a shell -- made of disappointment -- and called it discovery. But that is another story. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Zeno of Elea was regarded as the inventor of "dialectic disputation" -- i.e. having for its end not victory but the discovery of truth. From The Reader and Collector -- Vol. II, No. 3 -- We like the second paragraph of Still Another Man's Viewpoint. ---- Yes, Koenig, you still gripe Joe. ---- In an SC court, a deputy marshall was crying the court before an imported judge on the morning of December 2, '41. He was having considerable trouble with the language of the official blurb and when he came to the section where it reads somewhat as follows: "God saves the bloo-blach-bloo country and this honorable court"; he decided to simplify it a little. Before a hushed audience he read: "God save this court." Chaos followed the judge who laughed till the tears came. ---- Especially we like La Crème de la Crème in the fall, '41 issue of Sardonyx. 'Twas by Trudy. But, oh, how she hurt us: "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" when the terrible truth comes out so forthrightly in almost legible script for all to see. ---- We like Whacky, Vol. 1, No. 1, and wanna see more of it altho we prefer black hair to golden and are allergic to cement floors. ---- Elmer Perdue ---- "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Ozymandias -- Shelley
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