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Horizons, v. 2, issue 2, whole no. 6, December 1940

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6    H O R I Z O N
HAVE YOU HEARD OBOLER LATELY?

if there are any fantasy plays between now and then.
........
WAGNER AND FANDOM

Here are two quotations from the Nibelung Ring, the series of four music dramas with words and music by R. Wagner. They apply more or less to fandom; you are supposed to approach them in much the same spirit as you approached the issue of The Nucleus last Mailing.
Lately we've been hearing a good many complaints about the way fans are succumbing to the fatal lure of womankind. Sam Moskowitz poured out his woes to us in a letter that is truly heart-rending: seems that everyone except him in the QSFL has at least one gal. We won't say anything we shouldn't and thus can't enlarge on "at least". Donn Brazier reports that he'd have oceans of time if it weren't for his. Art Widner's is well known. Even in England, Ron. Holmes goes to great length about some bloody British female. To all these gents, and more besides, the following words, sung by Loge in The Rhinegold, might not be inappropriate:
With greatest pains
    th' affair to ponder
Where life ebbeth and floweth
In flood, and earth, and air,
    all asked I,
    ever inquiring,
    where sinew doth reign
    and seedings are rooted,
    what wealth a man
    could mightier deem
than women's wonderful worth.
But where life ebbeth and floweth
    I only found myself
    laughed at by all.
In flood and earth and air
    everything hath
    for aim but love.
You must use more imagination for the next one. Let's suppose it's coming from almost any outstanding fan, trying to find the fan who'll bind together all the sections, parts, classes and creeds of the fan world, like the proposed fan federation outlined by Knight & Widner in Fanfare. Every fan thinks of himself as a god, of course, so references to "godly distress" needn't be changed in the following lines from act II of The Valkyrie, sung in the opera by Wotan:
...One may compass what I must leave;
A here helped by none of our number
Who finds no guide or friend in the gods;
Unawares, under no stress, from out his need,
By his own design works out the deed
Which I would have done,
Of which my tongue ne'er told,
Though every first in my thoughts:
He, who 'gainst every god,
Fights yet for me,
This friendliest foe, how find him indeed?
Who in his defiance is faithful to me?
How master another, who, not mine own
From out his will for my ends shall work?
Oh, godly distress!
Grievous reproach!
Abhorrent to my heart have I found
Each hazard wild I have worked for!
Another end I have sighed for,

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6 H O R I Z O N HAVE YOU HEARD OBOLER LATELY? if there are any fantasy plays between now and then. ........ WAGNER AND FANDOM Here are two quotations from the Nibelung Ring, the series of four music dramas with words and music by R. Wagner. They apply more or less to fandom; you are supposed to approach them in much the same spirit as you approached the issue of The Nucleus last Mailing. Lately we've been hearing a good many complaints about the way fans are succumbing to the fatal lure of womankind. Sam Moskowitz poured out his woes to us in a letter that is truly heart-rending: seems that everyone except him in the QSFL has at least one gal. We won't say anything we shouldn't and thus can't enlarge on "at least". Donn Brazier reports that he'd have oceans of time if it weren't for his. Art Widner's is well known. Even in England, Ron. Holmes goes to great length about some bloody British female. To all these gents, and more besides, the following words, sung by Loge in The Rhinegold, might not be inappropriate: With greatest pains th' affair to ponder Where life ebbeth and floweth In flood, and earth, and air, all asked I, ever inquiring, where sinew doth reign and seedings are rooted, what wealth a man could mightier deem than women's wonderful worth. But where life ebbeth and floweth I only found myself laughed at by all. In flood and earth and air everything hath for aim but love. You must use more imagination for the next one. Let's suppose it's coming from almost any outstanding fan, trying to find the fan who'll bind together all the sections, parts, classes and creeds of the fan world, like the proposed fan federation outlined by Knight & Widner in Fanfare. Every fan thinks of himself as a god, of course, so references to "godly distress" needn't be changed in the following lines from act II of The Valkyrie, sung in the opera by Wotan: ...One may compass what I must leave; A here helped by none of our number Who finds no guide or friend in the gods; Unawares, under no stress, from out his need, By his own design works out the deed Which I would have done, Of which my tongue ne'er told, Though every first in my thoughts: He, who 'gainst every god, Fights yet for me, This friendliest foe, how find him indeed? Who in his defiance is faithful to me? How master another, who, not mine own From out his will for my ends shall work? Oh, godly distress! Grievous reproach! Abhorrent to my heart have I found Each hazard wild I have worked for! Another end I have sighed for,