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Milty's Mag, issue 9, March 1943
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FLUFF.......... 12/22/42 Whereupon we once more take up the system of leafing thru the mailing and talking about whatever meets our fancy. Gad -- what a pile! Give me strength. The Fantasy Amateur: I don't have to worry about the fate of the FAPA while there is an editor like Al Ashley. I count 20% of our membership in some sort of active service. Can't give a definite opinion about servicemen's activity. Some can and some can't. Depends on where they land, if you want to remove our activity requirements, I won't mind. Makes no difference to me, as you see. Probably a good thing for others. THE Phantagraph: First reaction is an almost impolite question: Haven't you fellows talked enough about fighting fascism? Pogorus: So I shall grow up to read Westerns and Whodunits! Ghu preserve me. And preserve me from the deadly horror of Kiwanis and Rotaries. No thanks -- if I've gone through four months of the army without a single poker or dice game, I think I'm safe from them. Sorry, folks, them's not my ideas about growing up. Sardonyx -- Happy that Russ is still with us, even tho no longer interested in sf. ... In later years we are going to look back at these wartime mailings and wonder at the strange opinions that we voiced therein. While we are in war our minds are forced to the point of view that all this is done because it is necessary in order that we may survive. Later on we may find that there was another way out, and in a pacifistic revulsion condemn our present opinions. But now, in this present, all the information at our disposal, all the variables in the equation lead to the fact that this war is the only way we now know to do what we have to do. I want to put this down in writing and inform the future me who reads this that if everything turns out to be wrong it is because we didn't have enough information. Right now it looks to me that I'm doing the right thing, and nothing the future can bring will change that. All this is occasioned by Russ' quotation: "And he is dead who will not fight." It may be true what they say about soldiers taking up poetry in a big way. I read every piece of poetry in this mailing. I never used to. Congrats to Norman Stanley for thinking of the potential energy trouble with respect to inertialess travel. It had escaped me. I'd already thought of the atomic and molecular complications. It sure looks like inertialessness is a pipe dream, doesn't it? Mutant: When Perdue and I were introduced to "surrealistic" jokes about three years ago by the Futurians, we called them shaggy dog stories. We loved them. The one about the potatoes and cabbage was my favorite, although the version I know was about parsnips and creamed cauliflower. ... I read your article, Russ. SF Variety: Carnell defending Ackerman. Fight! Give 'im hell, Ted. I'm behind you. After going around with Forrie for awhile and finding out what makes him tick, I'm glad I'm not the number one fan. I know that I don't have the stuff to do some of the things Forrie does. I know that he does them because he likes to, not because he thinks he's going to get something out of it. I'd say more, only Forrie will read this before it's even mimeoed, and I can't praise people to their faces. Tucky: So the Office of Censorship is worried about the danger address-publishing entrails for us.
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FLUFF.......... 12/22/42 Whereupon we once more take up the system of leafing thru the mailing and talking about whatever meets our fancy. Gad -- what a pile! Give me strength. The Fantasy Amateur: I don't have to worry about the fate of the FAPA while there is an editor like Al Ashley. I count 20% of our membership in some sort of active service. Can't give a definite opinion about servicemen's activity. Some can and some can't. Depends on where they land, if you want to remove our activity requirements, I won't mind. Makes no difference to me, as you see. Probably a good thing for others. THE Phantagraph: First reaction is an almost impolite question: Haven't you fellows talked enough about fighting fascism? Pogorus: So I shall grow up to read Westerns and Whodunits! Ghu preserve me. And preserve me from the deadly horror of Kiwanis and Rotaries. No thanks -- if I've gone through four months of the army without a single poker or dice game, I think I'm safe from them. Sorry, folks, them's not my ideas about growing up. Sardonyx -- Happy that Russ is still with us, even tho no longer interested in sf. ... In later years we are going to look back at these wartime mailings and wonder at the strange opinions that we voiced therein. While we are in war our minds are forced to the point of view that all this is done because it is necessary in order that we may survive. Later on we may find that there was another way out, and in a pacifistic revulsion condemn our present opinions. But now, in this present, all the information at our disposal, all the variables in the equation lead to the fact that this war is the only way we now know to do what we have to do. I want to put this down in writing and inform the future me who reads this that if everything turns out to be wrong it is because we didn't have enough information. Right now it looks to me that I'm doing the right thing, and nothing the future can bring will change that. All this is occasioned by Russ' quotation: "And he is dead who will not fight." It may be true what they say about soldiers taking up poetry in a big way. I read every piece of poetry in this mailing. I never used to. Congrats to Norman Stanley for thinking of the potential energy trouble with respect to inertialess travel. It had escaped me. I'd already thought of the atomic and molecular complications. It sure looks like inertialessness is a pipe dream, doesn't it? Mutant: When Perdue and I were introduced to "surrealistic" jokes about three years ago by the Futurians, we called them shaggy dog stories. We loved them. The one about the potatoes and cabbage was my favorite, although the version I know was about parsnips and creamed cauliflower. ... I read your article, Russ. SF Variety: Carnell defending Ackerman. Fight! Give 'im hell, Ted. I'm behind you. After going around with Forrie for awhile and finding out what makes him tick, I'm glad I'm not the number one fan. I know that I don't have the stuff to do some of the things Forrie does. I know that he does them because he likes to, not because he thinks he's going to get something out of it. I'd say more, only Forrie will read this before it's even mimeoed, and I can't praise people to their faces. Tucky: So the Office of Censorship is worried about the danger address-publishing entrails for us.
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