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Vanguard Variorum, May 1946
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VANGUARD VARIORUM 5 stories. His present wording indicates that he has been saddened by my gradual decline. He is not saddened, nor is he the slightest bit objective. His nervous system has set itself into a curious pattern of outward, and, so far as his conscious thought is concerned, a genuine hostility to everything that I have ever written. What I would like to know is why he has read my stories so thoroughly that no revealing sentence in them has escaped his eagle eyes? It would be different if he were a paid critic whose duty it was to review current magazine fiction, but under the circumstances I maintain that Mr. Knight's criticism should not even exist in this plane of probability. Surely, if he felt as he did two years ago--and he did--he should not even have read WORLD OF A. He should have passed it by just as I skip the writings of authors who do not interest me. There is however another explanation of Mr. Knight's outward hostility. The truth is that my stories to do not bore him. They excite him, they provoke him to new thoughts, they send him to his typewriter again and again, and since he does not understand the impulses that move him to these reactions, the result is attack after attack. Human nature being what it is, I have a very strong hunch that, far from hating my stories, Mr. Knight is actually one of my most ardent admirers. Cordially yours, van Vot A. E. van Vogt
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VANGUARD VARIORUM 5 stories. His present wording indicates that he has been saddened by my gradual decline. He is not saddened, nor is he the slightest bit objective. His nervous system has set itself into a curious pattern of outward, and, so far as his conscious thought is concerned, a genuine hostility to everything that I have ever written. What I would like to know is why he has read my stories so thoroughly that no revealing sentence in them has escaped his eagle eyes? It would be different if he were a paid critic whose duty it was to review current magazine fiction, but under the circumstances I maintain that Mr. Knight's criticism should not even exist in this plane of probability. Surely, if he felt as he did two years ago--and he did--he should not even have read WORLD OF A. He should have passed it by just as I skip the writings of authors who do not interest me. There is however another explanation of Mr. Knight's outward hostility. The truth is that my stories to do not bore him. They excite him, they provoke him to new thoughts, they send him to his typewriter again and again, and since he does not understand the impulses that move him to these reactions, the result is attack after attack. Human nature being what it is, I have a very strong hunch that, far from hating my stories, Mr. Knight is actually one of my most ardent admirers. Cordially yours, van Vot A. E. van Vogt
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