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Fantasite, v. 2, issue 5, whole 11, May-June 1943
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26 .... THE FANTASITE At last he noticed something. Space seemed to be getting narrower! There was no doubt about it. He was no longer speeding outward; but he had reached a sort of tenuous boundary, and he was speeding along it, following its curve! And it seemed to curve in upon itself sharply. For a long time he hadn't seen a single Cosmos anywhere, so he knew, now, that he was fast approaching the End of Everything. Now he was slowing down. That tenuous but invisible something still bound him in, narrower and narrower and beyond it was nothing--not even the blackness of Space, nor the emptiness of Space, but merely and irrevocably Nothing! Finally he was moving so slowly and was so crowded in by the End of Space, that he had to get down on his hands and knees and crawl! He was beginning to be disappointed. There seemed to be nothing here but Nothing! Bu then he saw Something. Just a little distance away. He crawled toward it faster, excitedly, and then he saw what it was--just a little hole! His heart was pounding madly. Here, he knew, was the Very End. But what was it? My, but that little hole was fascinating! He came nearer to it and nearer, until he was just a few inches away. Dared he look? But why not? That's what he'd come clear out here to the End of Everything for. Wonderingly, he put his eye to the hole and looked. All he saw was a great, horrible Eye, very close, staring right back into his own. Then the eye winked at him. It was awful. ----------------------- FANTA-NOTES--Contd. from page 4. A fan-mystery that has never been solved is the famous "Kamis Lessur Enigma". Some time ago, various members of the MFS received strange letters from a tongue-in-cheek individual, "Kamis Lessur", of "Arkham". About the time of the perpetration of this hoax--which lasted for several months-- a number of equally screwy missives were received from "Melvin Moron" and "Jean Genius". It was later discovered that Manson Brackney was responsible for the latter, but the identity of "Melvin Moron" has never been definitely established. Mr. Lessur still remains undetected. To further complicate matters, letters with an authentic ring were received from a "Micheal B. White". Suspicion arose from the mis-spelling of the name "Michael", and later Mr. White's non-existence was verified by the return of several letters sent to his address which were marked "No Such Address". For a while Gordon Dickson was suspected, as he had been caught in a pre-arranged trap. He was handed a piece of paper and a pencil, and then told to write the name "Michael". He spelled it wrong and we thought we had him. This proved to be another false alarm, however, as later evidence in the case revealed. A great deal of sleep has been lost in fruitless attempts to solve this puzzle. Although no one else agrees, we still think that Arden "Buns" Benson is the culprit behind the Lessur hoax... One of the most industrious s-f authors we know is Carl Jacobi. He works full-time in a Minneapolis Defense Plant, does a lot of writing on the side, and still finds time to write articles for The Fantasite! Carl has written for over 45 different magazines, including Canadian an other foreign publications, some of which have translated material by him. Acknowledgement: To Bruce Yerke, Mel Brown, and Morojo, of the LASFS, our thanks for the assistance they rendered on the publication of this issue. Running 250 copies of a magazine this site is no small amount of work! --PHIL BRONSON
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26 .... THE FANTASITE At last he noticed something. Space seemed to be getting narrower! There was no doubt about it. He was no longer speeding outward; but he had reached a sort of tenuous boundary, and he was speeding along it, following its curve! And it seemed to curve in upon itself sharply. For a long time he hadn't seen a single Cosmos anywhere, so he knew, now, that he was fast approaching the End of Everything. Now he was slowing down. That tenuous but invisible something still bound him in, narrower and narrower and beyond it was nothing--not even the blackness of Space, nor the emptiness of Space, but merely and irrevocably Nothing! Finally he was moving so slowly and was so crowded in by the End of Space, that he had to get down on his hands and knees and crawl! He was beginning to be disappointed. There seemed to be nothing here but Nothing! Bu then he saw Something. Just a little distance away. He crawled toward it faster, excitedly, and then he saw what it was--just a little hole! His heart was pounding madly. Here, he knew, was the Very End. But what was it? My, but that little hole was fascinating! He came nearer to it and nearer, until he was just a few inches away. Dared he look? But why not? That's what he'd come clear out here to the End of Everything for. Wonderingly, he put his eye to the hole and looked. All he saw was a great, horrible Eye, very close, staring right back into his own. Then the eye winked at him. It was awful. ----------------------- FANTA-NOTES--Contd. from page 4. A fan-mystery that has never been solved is the famous "Kamis Lessur Enigma". Some time ago, various members of the MFS received strange letters from a tongue-in-cheek individual, "Kamis Lessur", of "Arkham". About the time of the perpetration of this hoax--which lasted for several months-- a number of equally screwy missives were received from "Melvin Moron" and "Jean Genius". It was later discovered that Manson Brackney was responsible for the latter, but the identity of "Melvin Moron" has never been definitely established. Mr. Lessur still remains undetected. To further complicate matters, letters with an authentic ring were received from a "Micheal B. White". Suspicion arose from the mis-spelling of the name "Michael", and later Mr. White's non-existence was verified by the return of several letters sent to his address which were marked "No Such Address". For a while Gordon Dickson was suspected, as he had been caught in a pre-arranged trap. He was handed a piece of paper and a pencil, and then told to write the name "Michael". He spelled it wrong and we thought we had him. This proved to be another false alarm, however, as later evidence in the case revealed. A great deal of sleep has been lost in fruitless attempts to solve this puzzle. Although no one else agrees, we still think that Arden "Buns" Benson is the culprit behind the Lessur hoax... One of the most industrious s-f authors we know is Carl Jacobi. He works full-time in a Minneapolis Defense Plant, does a lot of writing on the side, and still finds time to write articles for The Fantasite! Carl has written for over 45 different magazines, including Canadian an other foreign publications, some of which have translated material by him. Acknowledgement: To Bruce Yerke, Mel Brown, and Morojo, of the LASFS, our thanks for the assistance they rendered on the publication of this issue. Running 250 copies of a magazine this site is no small amount of work! --PHIL BRONSON
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