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Vanguard Variorum, May 1946
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VANGUARD VARIORUM 11 FSNY; your outlines are becoming a trifle blurred ....Blish. "...in such cases I consider the usage to be thoroughly justified regardless of the amount of research it requires of the reader. After all, the greater amount of the work has been done by the poet -- he is within his province to demand some attention on the reader's part." Quibble: Any work of art demands something of the reader, listener, or beholder; but the artist is in no position to demand anything. work on a higher level of abstraction only limits his audience....The name of the painter referred to, as practically everybody knows, is Leonardo daMoniac, not D. Leonardo da Knight....I am not amused by "cd/", "wd/" and "shd/". It reeks of fan. Ugh! V.K. Emden: VAPOR The baby just discovered how to crawl under the gate which keeps* her in the nursery and out of my office; I am faced with the prospect of 118 hours of hard and intensive work, starting at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow; it has been so long since I put anything in Vanguard, and Vanguard has had such spasmodic and miniscule mailings recently that I hardly know what items are up for review or what I want to say about them; the pissoir is again out of commission and we are all reduced to using the privy in the hall (as Larry says, "...in the outer outhouse only"); Jim has gone ahead and announced "Bar Sinister" for Renascence which means Ideally have to whip it into final shape, immediately; the gas and electric company has caught up with me -- but it's spring, and there is one of the new dateless mailings coming up in the very near future, and all portents say I will be included therein. Since my new alphabetical system of filing has put the publications out of mailing order anyhow, and since every chance visitor to Fort Wit has had one thing or another he wanted to check up on which was buried in those files (but was seldom re-interred afterwords) I do not guarantee that you will be able to find the usual scrupulous attention to every individual item, or even that you will find anything other than a big blank space after I once get myself unwound from this introductory paragraph, but I have at least gotten started. And it is spring, so who knows? Contemplation of Stefantasy almost makes out of me the sunny-tempered little character that the Zissman-Knight-Shaw contingent dreamed up out of nowhere. I am so proud of Danner I could bust. In case there remains anyone who is not aware of the fact, let me proclaim loudly that it was I who introduced Bill to amateur publishing. I won't bother to list everything in the issue that I thought was funny - it would just be a tabulation of the magazine, item by item. Only an Amedieval Romance was sub-standard while theself-explanatory graph on The First Page was absolutely hilarious, and surely makes up forany minor lacks elsewhere. W. Michelangelo Danner and W. Milton Danner are among my favorite artists and poets. Even the postcard was funny; I wish I could conscientiously have returned it with a hearty yea for A Dangerous Thing--that was such a good title! January Argenbite is fruitful ground. Beginning with the cover quote from Einstein, I learn that Doc found it in the Times or some equally stodgy organ. Shaw first pointed it out to me in PM, unfailing source of bigger and better typos, where Einstein's comment read like this: "Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boom for a long time, I have to say that for the present it's a menace." Amen! The running heads continue to out-Zissman Zissman. Underneath one of the best, where doshes distimmed to Inwit, Lowndes *used to keep, I mean
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VANGUARD VARIORUM 11 FSNY; your outlines are becoming a trifle blurred ....Blish. "...in such cases I consider the usage to be thoroughly justified regardless of the amount of research it requires of the reader. After all, the greater amount of the work has been done by the poet -- he is within his province to demand some attention on the reader's part." Quibble: Any work of art demands something of the reader, listener, or beholder; but the artist is in no position to demand anything. work on a higher level of abstraction only limits his audience....The name of the painter referred to, as practically everybody knows, is Leonardo daMoniac, not D. Leonardo da Knight....I am not amused by "cd/", "wd/" and "shd/". It reeks of fan. Ugh! V.K. Emden: VAPOR The baby just discovered how to crawl under the gate which keeps* her in the nursery and out of my office; I am faced with the prospect of 118 hours of hard and intensive work, starting at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow; it has been so long since I put anything in Vanguard, and Vanguard has had such spasmodic and miniscule mailings recently that I hardly know what items are up for review or what I want to say about them; the pissoir is again out of commission and we are all reduced to using the privy in the hall (as Larry says, "...in the outer outhouse only"); Jim has gone ahead and announced "Bar Sinister" for Renascence which means Ideally have to whip it into final shape, immediately; the gas and electric company has caught up with me -- but it's spring, and there is one of the new dateless mailings coming up in the very near future, and all portents say I will be included therein. Since my new alphabetical system of filing has put the publications out of mailing order anyhow, and since every chance visitor to Fort Wit has had one thing or another he wanted to check up on which was buried in those files (but was seldom re-interred afterwords) I do not guarantee that you will be able to find the usual scrupulous attention to every individual item, or even that you will find anything other than a big blank space after I once get myself unwound from this introductory paragraph, but I have at least gotten started. And it is spring, so who knows? Contemplation of Stefantasy almost makes out of me the sunny-tempered little character that the Zissman-Knight-Shaw contingent dreamed up out of nowhere. I am so proud of Danner I could bust. In case there remains anyone who is not aware of the fact, let me proclaim loudly that it was I who introduced Bill to amateur publishing. I won't bother to list everything in the issue that I thought was funny - it would just be a tabulation of the magazine, item by item. Only an Amedieval Romance was sub-standard while theself-explanatory graph on The First Page was absolutely hilarious, and surely makes up forany minor lacks elsewhere. W. Michelangelo Danner and W. Milton Danner are among my favorite artists and poets. Even the postcard was funny; I wish I could conscientiously have returned it with a hearty yea for A Dangerous Thing--that was such a good title! January Argenbite is fruitful ground. Beginning with the cover quote from Einstein, I learn that Doc found it in the Times or some equally stodgy organ. Shaw first pointed it out to me in PM, unfailing source of bigger and better typos, where Einstein's comment read like this: "Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boom for a long time, I have to say that for the present it's a menace." Amen! The running heads continue to out-Zissman Zissman. Underneath one of the best, where doshes distimmed to Inwit, Lowndes *used to keep, I mean
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