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Milty's Mag, issue 9, March 1943

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"and are now seen the midnight dances of the Willis (a tradition of nocturnal dancing known in Slav countries under this name), affianced maidens who have died before their wedding day, in whose hearts which have ceased to throb, in whose dead feet, there still remains the passion for dancing which they were unable to satisfy, and so they whirl through their mystic rites, unable to find rest in their tombs." Quote courtesy of program notes. It looks like a new type of supernatural being for the record.

Ballet is just filthy with fantasy ideas. Incidentally, the original idea for the one mentioned above is by Heinrich Heine, in case you are interested.

The note about del Rey and his unknown soldier story was amusing. To answer the question raised: No, del Rey does not always believe what he writes. He writes for money and isn't ashamed to tell you so. Campbell wanted a patriotic story, so Lester wrote it. Originally, the idea was to have a story to match the flag motif on the cover.

Re my letter. Rank at the moment has finally crystallized...And is very rank. They just made me a Private First-Class. Gad -- the degradation of it. In Aberdeen a Pfc. was a step lower than a fresh, clean yard-bird. So I was in no mood to accept a mere single stripe in this camp, where they have apparently stopped jumping people immediately to corporal. Well, you can't have everything. I should kick.

KONAN: So finally Speer finished it. Gad ~~ how I watched that epic grow hexameter by hexameter. I guess he's been writing it for about five years by now. It's amusing as all hell.

Futurian Review: A brilliant piece of work, indeed. What eruditeness displayed in the translation and genealogy. .... Why is it that of late the Futurians have sounded better in humor than when being serious? Could it be that the world has passed them in its anti-fascist effort and that now they have nothing new to offer?

Reader and Collector: Vast amusement at Koenig's letters to hecklers. (With effort I could probably make a pun about Heck Koenig and hecklers, but I won't bother.)

Salute: Seeing something like this in the FAPA pains me. Up to now we have been fairly free of the flag-waving brand of patriotism, except for an occasional lapse from Rochester. This sort of thing has always seemed as out of place in the FAPA as a religious tract. Religion and flag-waving are two of a kind, and I have no time for either of them. I can be a better man without religion than most church goers, and I know my place in this war better than many who try to appear patriotic. I find no necessity for speaking of God and country and duty to the fatherland and reverence for the flag and other slogans. What has meaning for me is the actuality of the people of the world and their future civilization. I have no mental need for the symbol of a flag.

Civilization is so loaded down with symbols that it makes me afraid everytime I see a new one. Look at the recent crop: Pearl Harbor, V for victory, Lidice, Dunkirk, Bataan, the Minute Man, the Swastika. There is an actuality behind those symbols. When I talk I talk about those actualities, because as soon as you start symbolizing, then you oversimplify and you lose the accuracy of your thinking. Lord knows it's hard enough to think clearly without tossing away half of your facts in the process of symbolizing.

Re the salute on the cover: What happened to Russia?

The trouble with Cunningham is that he has (to coin a phrase) a formality complex. His workings are good. Sending magazines to fans in service, or

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"and are now seen the midnight dances of the Willis (a tradition of nocturnal dancing known in Slav countries under this name), affianced maidens who have died before their wedding day, in whose hearts which have ceased to throb, in whose dead feet, there still remains the passion for dancing which they were unable to satisfy, and so they whirl through their mystic rites, unable to find rest in their tombs." Quote courtesy of program notes. It looks like a new type of supernatural being for the record. Ballet is just filthy with fantasy ideas. Incidentally, the original idea for the one mentioned above is by Heinrich Heine, in case you are interested. The note about del Rey and his unknown soldier story was amusing. To answer the question raised: No, del Rey does not always believe what he writes. He writes for money and isn't ashamed to tell you so. Campbell wanted a patriotic story, so Lester wrote it. Originally, the idea was to have a story to match the flag motif on the cover. Re my letter. Rank at the moment has finally crystallized...And is very rank. They just made me a Private First-Class. Gad -- the degradation of it. In Aberdeen a Pfc. was a step lower than a fresh, clean yard-bird. So I was in no mood to accept a mere single stripe in this camp, where they have apparently stopped jumping people immediately to corporal. Well, you can't have everything. I should kick. KONAN: So finally Speer finished it. Gad ~~ how I watched that epic grow hexameter by hexameter. I guess he's been writing it for about five years by now. It's amusing as all hell. Futurian Review: A brilliant piece of work, indeed. What eruditeness displayed in the translation and genealogy. .... Why is it that of late the Futurians have sounded better in humor than when being serious? Could it be that the world has passed them in its anti-fascist effort and that now they have nothing new to offer? Reader and Collector: Vast amusement at Koenig's letters to hecklers. (With effort I could probably make a pun about Heck Koenig and hecklers, but I won't bother.) Salute: Seeing something like this in the FAPA pains me. Up to now we have been fairly free of the flag-waving brand of patriotism, except for an occasional lapse from Rochester. This sort of thing has always seemed as out of place in the FAPA as a religious tract. Religion and flag-waving are two of a kind, and I have no time for either of them. I can be a better man without religion than most church goers, and I know my place in this war better than many who try to appear patriotic. I find no necessity for speaking of God and country and duty to the fatherland and reverence for the flag and other slogans. What has meaning for me is the actuality of the people of the world and their future civilization. I have no mental need for the symbol of a flag. Civilization is so loaded down with symbols that it makes me afraid everytime I see a new one. Look at the recent crop: Pearl Harbor, V for victory, Lidice, Dunkirk, Bataan, the Minute Man, the Swastika. There is an actuality behind those symbols. When I talk I talk about those actualities, because as soon as you start symbolizing, then you oversimplify and you lose the accuracy of your thinking. Lord knows it's hard enough to think clearly without tossing away half of your facts in the process of symbolizing. Re the salute on the cover: What happened to Russia? The trouble with Cunningham is that he has (to coin a phrase) a formality complex. His workings are good. Sending magazines to fans in service, or