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just for the sake of poking fun at something, smacks of the epic. Move over, Dante; here comes Danner! Tumbrils: Reading Blish gives me an inferiority complex: he invariably knows at least ten times as much about his subjects as I do. I'd more risk an argument with him on his own grounds than try to beat an unfamiliar pinball machine. Cretin: Leave us have more and more about cats. Love craft and Blish and me . I'm inclined to think that the current fad of interest in mental institutions is simply a catering to the great American public's love to read about things that smack of sadism. That of course doesn't mean it couldn't lead to reforms. "The Snake Pit" seems to have inspired most of the magazine and newspaper investigations, although I found nothing particularly shocking in the Ward book's Reader's Digest version. Agenbite of Inwit: "On Non-Violent Resistance" probably hasn't been raised elsewhere simply because it is so perfectly obvious. "Outlines of a No-Value Orientation", on the other hand, puts concisely into words something that you might not otherwise think out for yourself. Cartoons I did like to see recently, Doc, includes one wherein a gentleman pulled upon the door of the refrigerator quickly enough to surprise a dwarf inside in the act of pulling on the interior illumination. Googol: Look, if jazz is so basically primitive, why hasn't it existed longer than a couple of decades? The "jazz" that the whole argument is about means, I presume, the specialized form of "popular music" that was started mm[?] by a few rather obscure musicians and small bands, and has in recent years taken on a special audience of its own. My own guess is that it'll disappear by 1960, and will replaced by some other offshoot of danceband music. It shows three or four parallels to the classical music of the early and middle 18th century, and classical music gradually lost those characteristics -- the improvising nature, the use of a simple pattern in the bass that is repeated throughout the composition a la boogiewoogie, and so forth. Vanguard Amateur: Weighty pronouncements like that in the third paragraph of the third page leave a bad taste in the mouth. Surely we aren't all that highclass! Asking that material be slanted for one who has no acquaintance with stf. and fandom seems sort of silly, too. Of the 21 members listed in this issue. I'd class 16 as experts in those fields, at the very least, and of the other  five, at least the Zissmans and Danner seem to know plenty about such things -- probably more than I give them credit for. Constitution: Duly gazed at. Renascence: Ave atque vale. In Re: It seems a roundabout way of doing good deeds, but is more sensible than letting the dough vegetate in the treasury. Joe's Jottings: I still think Joe would be happier in the FAPA. The Muse: But not Grassly. Temporary: Mentioned for the sake of completeness. Fan-Tods: In the next Horizons, I'll try to work things so the VAPA reviews can be excluded from the FAPA edition, and the other way around, just like Norm does. Contraiwise alone would make the VAPA dues worth while.         :Damon every now and then sounds like the posthumous works of Willie Watson; otherwise, he's the top VAPA humorist. Copyrighting seems like a waste of time and effort for ayjay productions, unless you're trying to get material from established writers who like protection for their stuff. Besides, if you copyright, you run into difficulty quoting from other copyrighted material. And I think there really is some sort of poor man's protection in the laws for uncopyrighted publications, provided no copy of said publication is sold. The trick of comparing a statement  whose probability of validity is low with a statement whose p of v is almost zero isn't a very fair way of trying to prove a semantic point. Anyrate, I hope no fan who plans to attend the Pacificon by train attempts to apply semantics to a timetable. Vanguard Variorum: Practically all the VAPA members are much more interesting in places like this, where they're not trying to be so confoundedly intellectual. In that unsemantic world where eternal verities existed, they'd probably be found to be writing better stuff in VV than in Renascence, too. Van Vogt still doesn't convince me that "World of A" was as a story worth the effort of reading. As a fictionalized version of a philosophy, it was probably very important for the people acquainted with Korzybski's book, and taken in conjunction with the promised sequel, it might be a good yarn. I'd judge that damon wins this bout quite easily.

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just for the sake of poking fun at something, smacks of the epic. Move over, Dante; here comes Danner! Tumbrils: Reading Blish gives me an inferiority complex: he invariably knows at least ten times as much about his subjects as I do. I'd more risk an argument with him on his own grounds than try to beat an unfamiliar pinball machine. Cretin: Leave us have more and more about cats. Love craft and Blish and me . I'm inclined to think that the current fad of interest in mental institutions is simply a catering to the great American public's love to read about things that smack of sadism. That of course doesn't mean it couldn't lead to reforms. "The Snake Pit" seems to have inspired most of the magazine and newspaper investigations, although I found nothing particularly shocking in the Ward book's Reader's Digest version. Agenbite of Inwit: "On Non-Violent Resistance" probably hasn't been raised elsewhere simply because it is so perfectly obvious. "Outlines of a No-Value Orientation", on the other hand, puts concisely into words something that you might not otherwise think out for yourself. Cartoons I did like to see recently, Doc, includes one wherein a gentleman pulled upon the door of the refrigerator quickly enough to surprise a dwarf inside in the act of pulling on the interior illumination. Googol: Look, if jazz is so basically primitive, why hasn't it existed longer than a couple of decades? The "jazz" that the whole argument is about means, I presume, the specialized form of "popular music" that was started mm[?] by a few rather obscure musicians and small bands, and has in recent years taken on a special audience of its own. My own guess is that it'll disappear by 1960, and will replaced by some other offshoot of danceband music. It shows three or four parallels to the classical music of the early and middle 18th century, and classical music gradually lost those characteristics -- the improvising nature, the use of a simple pattern in the bass that is repeated throughout the composition a la boogiewoogie, and so forth. Vanguard Amateur: Weighty pronouncements like that in the third paragraph of the third page leave a bad taste in the mouth. Surely we aren't all that highclass! Asking that material be slanted for one who has no acquaintance with stf. and fandom seems sort of silly, too. Of the 21 members listed in this issue. I'd class 16 as experts in those fields, at the very least, and of the other five, at least the Zissmans and Danner seem to know plenty about such things -- probably more than I give them credit for. Constitution: Duly gazed at. Renascence: Ave atque vale. In Re: It seems a roundabout way of doing good deeds, but is more sensible than letting the dough vegetate in the treasury. Joe's Jottings: I still think Joe would be happier in the FAPA. The Muse: But not Grassly. Temporary: Mentioned for the sake of completeness. Fan-Tods: In the next Horizons, I'll try to work things so the VAPA reviews can be excluded from the FAPA edition, and the other way around, just like Norm does. Contraiwise alone would make the VAPA dues worth while. :Damon every now and then sounds like the posthumous works of Willie Watson; otherwise, he's the top VAPA humorist. Copyrighting seems like a waste of time and effort for ayjay productions, unless you're trying to get material from established writers who like protection for their stuff. Besides, if you copyright, you run into difficulty quoting from other copyrighted material. And I think there really is some sort of poor man's protection in the laws for uncopyrighted publications, provided no copy of said publication is sold. The trick of comparing a statement whose probability of validity is low with a statement whose p of v is almost zero isn't a very fair way of trying to prove a semantic point. Anyrate, I hope no fan who plans to attend the Pacificon by train attempts to apply semantics to a timetable. Vanguard Variorum: Practically all the VAPA members are much more interesting in places like this, where they're not trying to be so confoundedly intellectual. In that unsemantic world where eternal verities existed, they'd probably be found to be writing better stuff in VV than in Renascence, too. Van Vogt still doesn't convince me that "World of A" was as a story worth the effort of reading. As a fictionalized version of a philosophy, it was probably very important for the people acquainted with Korzybski's book, and taken in conjunction with the promised sequel, it might be a good yarn. I'd judge that damon wins this bout quite easily.