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5 PHANTEUR 5 ---------------------- "By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them" --The PHANTEUR Reviews the Winter Mailing The review section this time is likely to be long, and it may be boring in spots, I fear; I haven't time for anything but direct composition on the stencil, and my natural tendency toward prolixity is bound to have a bad effect. But here goes, however it may come out. MOONSHINE -- Well, at worst, brown ink is more legible than the various other colors you've been using, Len, and the appearance of this issue is better than most. I don't think, though, that "art" is quite the right words for what goes under that name in M. -- Woolston's article. Fear I'm not qualified to answer this one; it does seem, though, that novas are a little too common in the Universe to be accounted for by the remote chance that the atoms etc. get going and keep going in a straight line. -- "Electa" --well, I've read worse in the pros, and it's rather amusing. LETHE -- Duplication doesn't look bad as a whole, but is still difficult to read. Lovecraftiana--I can't comment on the adequacy of this, either; I know so little and care so little about Lovecraft that I'm not even greatly interested; I should say, even a little interested. Obviously some careful work has gone into the article, and it must surely be of interest to many FAPAns. DREAMS ; oops, I mean "Dreams" -- Yeh, I reckon eternal bliss would get mighty boring. -- "How it Began" --well, no worse than its predecessors. HORIZONS--It had been my intention to reproduce here approximately the same comments that went into the VAPA version of PH last month, but alas, I had no extra copies, and the envelope has not arrived as I write. -- Harry is going to have to hit the keys a little harder on his new machine than he did on his old; haven't I read something about silent machines not being so good for stencil cutting? -- For one reason why I don't cash in on my present job-experience by writing fiction dealing with flood-control and irrigation on other planets, see "As Time Goes By" in this issue. Add to that my native laziness, plus the typical Editor's reluctance to part with cash for mediocre fiction, and I think you will just about have it all. -- The main reason why I'm a Draftsman, SP-6, in Civil Service, instead of an Engineer, P-2 or P-3, is to be found in the fact that I finished college in Teachers' College instead of in Engineering. There are, of course, some successful engineers who never went to college, or who dropped out or switched (as I did) after two years; but most of them are strictly specialists who, by careful attention to detail and hard work for many years in one small field, aided perhaps by a couple of years of study with the ICS, have finally acquired the basic information they could have obtained much more easily through two more years in Engineering college. Completing Engineering College doesn't make a man an Engineer, but it certainly helps. -- Reckon I like "Children of the Lens" better'n Harry. I didn't have any trouble keeping the four gals separated, and don't think the Bobbsey Twin analogy quite as close as Harry claims. It is detectable, though. The "children's" speech in public might be laid to protective covering; but among themselves, it was rather moronic. My pet peeve with the whole Lensman series has to do with EEEvan's favorite quotation; why use "visualization of the Comic All" when "Concept of God" is much better? -- The Palmer business is highly entertaining; tongue-in-cheek I think, but perhaps not too far-fetched; dunno if a man could suffer from such a psychosis (?) and maintain his position as a business man. -- "When We Were Very Young" continues to please; there were some swell mags in them there days; maybe we'll have more like them; we still have some good ones, too. -- Review -- Rather astounding that you battled your way all the way through a story you didn't care for, merely as practice in reading French. I once started Ibanez's "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" in the original Spanish, and found the going got particularly tough, but when the book was due back at the library, I returned it and didn't check it out again; fairly good story, too; but I haven't Harry's incredible singleness of purpose and determination.
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5 PHANTEUR 5 ---------------------- "By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them" --The PHANTEUR Reviews the Winter Mailing The review section this time is likely to be long, and it may be boring in spots, I fear; I haven't time for anything but direct composition on the stencil, and my natural tendency toward prolixity is bound to have a bad effect. But here goes, however it may come out. MOONSHINE -- Well, at worst, brown ink is more legible than the various other colors you've been using, Len, and the appearance of this issue is better than most. I don't think, though, that "art" is quite the right words for what goes under that name in M. -- Woolston's article. Fear I'm not qualified to answer this one; it does seem, though, that novas are a little too common in the Universe to be accounted for by the remote chance that the atoms etc. get going and keep going in a straight line. -- "Electa" --well, I've read worse in the pros, and it's rather amusing. LETHE -- Duplication doesn't look bad as a whole, but is still difficult to read. Lovecraftiana--I can't comment on the adequacy of this, either; I know so little and care so little about Lovecraft that I'm not even greatly interested; I should say, even a little interested. Obviously some careful work has gone into the article, and it must surely be of interest to many FAPAns. DREAMS ; oops, I mean "Dreams" -- Yeh, I reckon eternal bliss would get mighty boring. -- "How it Began" --well, no worse than its predecessors. HORIZONS--It had been my intention to reproduce here approximately the same comments that went into the VAPA version of PH last month, but alas, I had no extra copies, and the envelope has not arrived as I write. -- Harry is going to have to hit the keys a little harder on his new machine than he did on his old; haven't I read something about silent machines not being so good for stencil cutting? -- For one reason why I don't cash in on my present job-experience by writing fiction dealing with flood-control and irrigation on other planets, see "As Time Goes By" in this issue. Add to that my native laziness, plus the typical Editor's reluctance to part with cash for mediocre fiction, and I think you will just about have it all. -- The main reason why I'm a Draftsman, SP-6, in Civil Service, instead of an Engineer, P-2 or P-3, is to be found in the fact that I finished college in Teachers' College instead of in Engineering. There are, of course, some successful engineers who never went to college, or who dropped out or switched (as I did) after two years; but most of them are strictly specialists who, by careful attention to detail and hard work for many years in one small field, aided perhaps by a couple of years of study with the ICS, have finally acquired the basic information they could have obtained much more easily through two more years in Engineering college. Completing Engineering College doesn't make a man an Engineer, but it certainly helps. -- Reckon I like "Children of the Lens" better'n Harry. I didn't have any trouble keeping the four gals separated, and don't think the Bobbsey Twin analogy quite as close as Harry claims. It is detectable, though. The "children's" speech in public might be laid to protective covering; but among themselves, it was rather moronic. My pet peeve with the whole Lensman series has to do with EEEvan's favorite quotation; why use "visualization of the Comic All" when "Concept of God" is much better? -- The Palmer business is highly entertaining; tongue-in-cheek I think, but perhaps not too far-fetched; dunno if a man could suffer from such a psychosis (?) and maintain his position as a business man. -- "When We Were Very Young" continues to please; there were some swell mags in them there days; maybe we'll have more like them; we still have some good ones, too. -- Review -- Rather astounding that you battled your way all the way through a story you didn't care for, merely as practice in reading French. I once started Ibanez's "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" in the original Spanish, and found the going got particularly tough, but when the book was due back at the library, I returned it and didn't check it out again; fairly good story, too; but I haven't Harry's incredible singleness of purpose and determination.
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