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Vanguard Boojum page six (... continued) they have just cause for it. I don't believe he has cause, myself, although I have enjoyed more of his work than damon seems to have and do not think it wholly without merit. Most interesting in his letter is his apparently trapping of dk in the act of erecting preselected points into a curve: how about this, damon? Any further remarks on the victim's royalist leanings? ... For comments on "Fellow V's", please see the review of Flabble. ... Kubilius? Oy yes; Futurian, isn't he? ... Vapor: And someone has accused Lyons of being prolific. I stagger. How do you expect me to catch up with you, VKE, if you give me ninety points to cover for every one I can get around to? Good stuff, anyhow; maybe by 1960 I can afford an Emden edition, bound with rail spikes, nonslip frogs, and all. ... Preliminary Bouts: You don't have to be anybody to say that anything stinks. Whether anyone will listen is another matter. However, I apologize for being snotty about your criticism, which obviously was made in good faith and did not deserve such a thin-skinned answer; I was a little bitched off about the comparative stupidity of the comments after the conscientious work I put into the article, since I had hoped it would be considered in the light of my introductory oaragraph. I was more than a little taken aback to find almost nothing but blank stares, complaints about non-existant holes in my bibliography, and yelps of "Lese majesty" from wounded Marxists. As for "Political mentor", I hardly think I did anybody an injustice with so mild a word; your own phrase was "my chief political instructor and inspiration"; "mentor" means, simply, "teacher". Who's thinskinned now? Incidentally you may be interested to know that my first draft read: "'political' mentor". I cut that for fear of insulting somebody. Apparently I might just as well have let it stand. ... As for Michel, whether or not he tried to convert you has no bearing upon his qualification as your mentor. As a matter of fact, my dictionary says "a wise and faithful advisor, friend or teacher," which seems to rule JBM out entirely. ... III: I tried it. I see nothing in the statement which would indicate precautionary accuracy, as you imply. Whether or not Grassly appeared before or after the stencil business could be of not possible interest to Wollheim, since he was not accused in the first place; similarly, your statement that you voted for his expulsion because he was a known trouble maker, rather than on the grounds of quality, chooses the more libelous of these two alternatives. This excuse won't, Wash. ... There is na door that comments bland Would raise (in Variorum, And.,) Our standing; but there is no sense In ant proofing someone else's pants. FAN-TODS Lemuria, of course, is perfectly all right with me; mixing it with Mu is something like declaring Gondwanaland a myth. I'm afraid I had a little unconscious tangle with Shaver in allowing such a slip. As for the misspelling and misdating, I'm guilty without qualification; as stated in my review of Loppf below, I have been depending, in my Vanguard writing, upon a memory which appears to be less eidetic than I had supposed. ... I am not quite so humble under the accusation of phrenologic reasoning; for while Dr. Einstein did not establish the truism of events-having-position, he did propose a continuum in which the position of events is fixed -- including those events which our three-dimensional time-sense calls "future". (Or is my memory betraying me again?) If this is so, then the relationship between events which we call sequence cannot be fortuitous: hence, historical
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Vanguard Boojum page six (... continued) they have just cause for it. I don't believe he has cause, myself, although I have enjoyed more of his work than damon seems to have and do not think it wholly without merit. Most interesting in his letter is his apparently trapping of dk in the act of erecting preselected points into a curve: how about this, damon? Any further remarks on the victim's royalist leanings? ... For comments on "Fellow V's", please see the review of Flabble. ... Kubilius? Oy yes; Futurian, isn't he? ... Vapor: And someone has accused Lyons of being prolific. I stagger. How do you expect me to catch up with you, VKE, if you give me ninety points to cover for every one I can get around to? Good stuff, anyhow; maybe by 1960 I can afford an Emden edition, bound with rail spikes, nonslip frogs, and all. ... Preliminary Bouts: You don't have to be anybody to say that anything stinks. Whether anyone will listen is another matter. However, I apologize for being snotty about your criticism, which obviously was made in good faith and did not deserve such a thin-skinned answer; I was a little bitched off about the comparative stupidity of the comments after the conscientious work I put into the article, since I had hoped it would be considered in the light of my introductory oaragraph. I was more than a little taken aback to find almost nothing but blank stares, complaints about non-existant holes in my bibliography, and yelps of "Lese majesty" from wounded Marxists. As for "Political mentor", I hardly think I did anybody an injustice with so mild a word; your own phrase was "my chief political instructor and inspiration"; "mentor" means, simply, "teacher". Who's thinskinned now? Incidentally you may be interested to know that my first draft read: "'political' mentor". I cut that for fear of insulting somebody. Apparently I might just as well have let it stand. ... As for Michel, whether or not he tried to convert you has no bearing upon his qualification as your mentor. As a matter of fact, my dictionary says "a wise and faithful advisor, friend or teacher," which seems to rule JBM out entirely. ... III: I tried it. I see nothing in the statement which would indicate precautionary accuracy, as you imply. Whether or not Grassly appeared before or after the stencil business could be of not possible interest to Wollheim, since he was not accused in the first place; similarly, your statement that you voted for his expulsion because he was a known trouble maker, rather than on the grounds of quality, chooses the more libelous of these two alternatives. This excuse won't, Wash. ... There is na door that comments bland Would raise (in Variorum, And.,) Our standing; but there is no sense In ant proofing someone else's pants. FAN-TODS Lemuria, of course, is perfectly all right with me; mixing it with Mu is something like declaring Gondwanaland a myth. I'm afraid I had a little unconscious tangle with Shaver in allowing such a slip. As for the misspelling and misdating, I'm guilty without qualification; as stated in my review of Loppf below, I have been depending, in my Vanguard writing, upon a memory which appears to be less eidetic than I had supposed. ... I am not quite so humble under the accusation of phrenologic reasoning; for while Dr. Einstein did not establish the truism of events-having-position, he did propose a continuum in which the position of events is fixed -- including those events which our three-dimensional time-sense calls "future". (Or is my memory betraying me again?) If this is so, then the relationship between events which we call sequence cannot be fortuitous: hence, historical
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