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Vanguard Boojum #1 page four ... (continued) GOOGOL A title which should satisfy damon, though it leaves me gently chattering teeth. For Goo's sake indeed. ...I would hazard that philately journals have in the mass about twice the circulation of Jazzways and similar yearbooks, and I'm probably underestimating them. As for the main thesis, I can only repeat for the third time that mass popularity has no demonstratable relation to the aesthetic excellence, and that if jazz lives to be a billion it will be dead as a doornail so far as the main stream of music is concerned. ... I've bought Black Brown and Beige, which I find a very odd compost, eve for the Duke; its serious side seems to be a mixture of worn-out hymn tune cliches and strictly 1920 jazz, certainly difficult either for the symphonist or the Stan Kenton type of jazzman to swallow; only the relative unpretentious two dances on side four have more than a few touches of solid writing. The work is badly cut, I am told, so it may be just a case of poor selection of exerts. ... The rest of the material doesn't interest me greatly, and besides I am one of those with a prejudice against ditto and hecto alike. I'm afraid Googol and Science * Fiction together are going to make a rather indigestible bolus. Why not amalgamate, children? JOE'S JOTTINGS I like the cover, which sums up this Mailing's case of anti-intellectual jitters neatly. ... "The Vow" is the poem Lyons left out of his survey of Hart's poetry in Tumbrils #3, and upon rereading it I find I still have no complaint to make on that decision. ... Vanguard owes you thanks for the careful X-ray job, which shows a degree of interest in the organization not manifested by some other members. The Roentgen waves do not quite penetrate to the bone, unfortunately. Cancellation of the policy of bi-monthly mailings is not a sign of declining interest; it is a direct outcome of the scheduling of three mailings within as many months, which created a bottleneck in members' publishing activities. Similarly, the small numbers of publishing members cannot be judged as bad on the standards of other organizations; it must be judged on ours. such a magazine as Vanguard Variorum covers the ground four or five FAPA sheets cover, and this seems to be perfectly satisfactory; even if we had a roster of fifty writing members, I see no reason why fifteen publishing members could not satisfy their need for vehicles. As for attracting more fans by upping the percentage of fantasy material in the mailings -- I've just read "Gleanings from the Letter Box", and while I'll admit that not all fans are like this, I maintain that putting out more fantasy to attract fans who will put out more fantasy and attract more fans who will ... you can see where this would end! Out upon it! THE MUSE Since I've written Marsh a long letter which he says he is going to run in a forthcoming issue, I'll not duplicate my comments here; but since I have some doubts as to the possibility of a second issue, I'll summarize briefly. ... The poetry: thin and dull. ... The reviews: sometimes interesting, but annoyingly belligerent, a tone possibly excusable on grounds of previous example. The defense of the Renascence blurb about Doc is downright silly and does nothing but harm ... Overall: very disappointing, why a few gleams fo promise (mostly furtive) here and there. STEFANTASY I sympathize entirely with the printing troubles, for I once had a like experience; though nothing quite rids me of the suspicion that page 54 ii is subtly slipping me the w.k. Nee-
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Vanguard Boojum #1 page four ... (continued) GOOGOL A title which should satisfy damon, though it leaves me gently chattering teeth. For Goo's sake indeed. ...I would hazard that philately journals have in the mass about twice the circulation of Jazzways and similar yearbooks, and I'm probably underestimating them. As for the main thesis, I can only repeat for the third time that mass popularity has no demonstratable relation to the aesthetic excellence, and that if jazz lives to be a billion it will be dead as a doornail so far as the main stream of music is concerned. ... I've bought Black Brown and Beige, which I find a very odd compost, eve for the Duke; its serious side seems to be a mixture of worn-out hymn tune cliches and strictly 1920 jazz, certainly difficult either for the symphonist or the Stan Kenton type of jazzman to swallow; only the relative unpretentious two dances on side four have more than a few touches of solid writing. The work is badly cut, I am told, so it may be just a case of poor selection of exerts. ... The rest of the material doesn't interest me greatly, and besides I am one of those with a prejudice against ditto and hecto alike. I'm afraid Googol and Science * Fiction together are going to make a rather indigestible bolus. Why not amalgamate, children? JOE'S JOTTINGS I like the cover, which sums up this Mailing's case of anti-intellectual jitters neatly. ... "The Vow" is the poem Lyons left out of his survey of Hart's poetry in Tumbrils #3, and upon rereading it I find I still have no complaint to make on that decision. ... Vanguard owes you thanks for the careful X-ray job, which shows a degree of interest in the organization not manifested by some other members. The Roentgen waves do not quite penetrate to the bone, unfortunately. Cancellation of the policy of bi-monthly mailings is not a sign of declining interest; it is a direct outcome of the scheduling of three mailings within as many months, which created a bottleneck in members' publishing activities. Similarly, the small numbers of publishing members cannot be judged as bad on the standards of other organizations; it must be judged on ours. such a magazine as Vanguard Variorum covers the ground four or five FAPA sheets cover, and this seems to be perfectly satisfactory; even if we had a roster of fifty writing members, I see no reason why fifteen publishing members could not satisfy their need for vehicles. As for attracting more fans by upping the percentage of fantasy material in the mailings -- I've just read "Gleanings from the Letter Box", and while I'll admit that not all fans are like this, I maintain that putting out more fantasy to attract fans who will put out more fantasy and attract more fans who will ... you can see where this would end! Out upon it! THE MUSE Since I've written Marsh a long letter which he says he is going to run in a forthcoming issue, I'll not duplicate my comments here; but since I have some doubts as to the possibility of a second issue, I'll summarize briefly. ... The poetry: thin and dull. ... The reviews: sometimes interesting, but annoyingly belligerent, a tone possibly excusable on grounds of previous example. The defense of the Renascence blurb about Doc is downright silly and does nothing but harm ... Overall: very disappointing, why a few gleams fo promise (mostly furtive) here and there. STEFANTASY I sympathize entirely with the printing troubles, for I once had a like experience; though nothing quite rids me of the suspicion that page 54 ii is subtly slipping me the w.k. Nee-
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