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Handwriting On The Wall Page 12 SOUTHERN STAR Bob is practical, versatile, and active. He has an ability to handle detail, but is impatient with details and trifles to which much importance is paid. Naturally, as might be expected in Hoy Ping Pong's perpertrator, he has a sense of humor, though this is not, rather surprisingly, as pronounced a trait as might be expected. Bob is not inclined to underestimate himself. He has mental independence, the ability to formulate ideas, and to think logically and concisely. He's frank, open, generous, somewhat impetuous and blunt. The last two qualities augment each other. Like most fans, Bob is cool, calm, and more or less detached. His mind controls his emotions, instead of vice-versa, as in the case of most extroverts. (This last is not to be taken to mean that Bob's an introvert. He's not. Rather is he between the two -- analytical, calculating, but not, certainly, without sympathy or sentiment. The majority of fans answer to these qualifications. There is, in fact, so far as I know, only one true introvert in fandom. On the other hand, there are few introverts. You might call the average fan an "ambivert"; a mixture of the two extremes.") Bob is highly individualistic. His ideas and thoughts are well defined and his vision is broad. He reflects before acting. He has an excellent and magnetic personality, and is a most likable fellow, despite the fact that he's reserved inwardly. He's well-balance, conscientious, and possesses a good control over himself. A normal, human, dependable person is this Tucker fellow; really quite a nice guy. # . . . # [signature inserted: Doc Lowndes] Lowndes is predominatly what might be termed a "mental" type. His powers of concentration are considerable, his energies go to the brain, and everything is translated to its thought value. Emotions are rationalized and lose their intimate value. Doc is quite intelligent, possesses good judgement, and a careful, well-ordered memory. He is an imaginative person, with a spirit of adventure, and a tendency to reach out for the unattainable. He is cautious, calculating, with an element of skepticism. His hand shows good taste, strong aesthetic qualities, artistic appreciation. Doc sees many angles of a situation at the same time, but jumps to conclusions much too quickly. His perception is keen, and he is able to see the other person's viewpoint, tho he decidedly does not accept it. He possesses something of an inferiority complex for which he seeks compensation in recognition of his "different" isolated viewpoint. He has the intuition of a woman, a poet, or both. Too much intuition. His mind skims the surface of an issue and forms an intuitive impression from superficialities; from subconscious memory associations; from externals. He is very practical, a realist, avoiding the sentimental with a deliberateness which presupposes an element of sentiment in his nature, against which he is ever on his guard. Neat, careful, and rather precise, he likes things to be in order before he starts to work. Altho there are many introvertistic traits in his nature, his personality is that of an extrovert. It's a very positive direct personality, incidentally, a forceful aggressive one. It would be hard to convince Doc of anything he did not want to believe. Indeed impossible would not be strong a word in the majority of cases.
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Handwriting On The Wall Page 12 SOUTHERN STAR Bob is practical, versatile, and active. He has an ability to handle detail, but is impatient with details and trifles to which much importance is paid. Naturally, as might be expected in Hoy Ping Pong's perpertrator, he has a sense of humor, though this is not, rather surprisingly, as pronounced a trait as might be expected. Bob is not inclined to underestimate himself. He has mental independence, the ability to formulate ideas, and to think logically and concisely. He's frank, open, generous, somewhat impetuous and blunt. The last two qualities augment each other. Like most fans, Bob is cool, calm, and more or less detached. His mind controls his emotions, instead of vice-versa, as in the case of most extroverts. (This last is not to be taken to mean that Bob's an introvert. He's not. Rather is he between the two -- analytical, calculating, but not, certainly, without sympathy or sentiment. The majority of fans answer to these qualifications. There is, in fact, so far as I know, only one true introvert in fandom. On the other hand, there are few introverts. You might call the average fan an "ambivert"; a mixture of the two extremes.") Bob is highly individualistic. His ideas and thoughts are well defined and his vision is broad. He reflects before acting. He has an excellent and magnetic personality, and is a most likable fellow, despite the fact that he's reserved inwardly. He's well-balance, conscientious, and possesses a good control over himself. A normal, human, dependable person is this Tucker fellow; really quite a nice guy. # . . . # [signature inserted: Doc Lowndes] Lowndes is predominatly what might be termed a "mental" type. His powers of concentration are considerable, his energies go to the brain, and everything is translated to its thought value. Emotions are rationalized and lose their intimate value. Doc is quite intelligent, possesses good judgement, and a careful, well-ordered memory. He is an imaginative person, with a spirit of adventure, and a tendency to reach out for the unattainable. He is cautious, calculating, with an element of skepticism. His hand shows good taste, strong aesthetic qualities, artistic appreciation. Doc sees many angles of a situation at the same time, but jumps to conclusions much too quickly. His perception is keen, and he is able to see the other person's viewpoint, tho he decidedly does not accept it. He possesses something of an inferiority complex for which he seeks compensation in recognition of his "different" isolated viewpoint. He has the intuition of a woman, a poet, or both. Too much intuition. His mind skims the surface of an issue and forms an intuitive impression from superficialities; from subconscious memory associations; from externals. He is very practical, a realist, avoiding the sentimental with a deliberateness which presupposes an element of sentiment in his nature, against which he is ever on his guard. Neat, careful, and rather precise, he likes things to be in order before he starts to work. Altho there are many introvertistic traits in his nature, his personality is that of an extrovert. It's a very positive direct personality, incidentally, a forceful aggressive one. It would be hard to convince Doc of anything he did not want to believe. Indeed impossible would not be strong a word in the majority of cases.
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