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IMAGINATION! #8  38 May     15

Another cover was ofcourse dispatcht subscriber Speer.) ~~ Quite a few Oklahomans are also getting acquainted with Jupiter Pluvius for the first time, Russ. ~~ Dear old RAP's forecast was very welcome. Hope he really goes to town with Amazing. S'- Help me, if Spicy Fantasy appears, I'll scream! ~~ And Sneeks[[?]] is still sneeking around. Why doesn't some editor lay hold of the gent and put the thumbscrews on him for another story? What the heck--the only story of his I read was his final, serious one. ~~ I'm still waiting to see Foojak Among yOur Moms. ~~ If Fantascience Filmart were like the last one all the time, 'twould be an improvement. ~~ Put me on the back--I read all of Onward Esp, thus placing myself among the intelligenta personoj. (Jos Gakspir, via intereso ostas admirebla! Erdstelulov.) ~~ Ray for DrAcula! More! ~~ Yerke's Michelismanuscript was good so far as it went--though I was disappointed to find he even thought revolution necessary--but I fear it'll not discourage our  Communist friends one whit. The issue will have to be decided in 1939. ~~ Ah! Now I know who Azygous is! Perhaps not the same Azygous as did Call It What You Will-- but the author of Telefony Fantasticonversation was none other than Richard Wilson, Jr! I accused him of being Solitare, and while I turned out to be wrong on that ("Solitaire", a scientifictionewshound, we understand to b the pename of fan David Ackerman Kyle), I must've put the idea in his head. Anyway, I'll stake my no 2 TFGBulletin on it, that Dicky did that article. (I dout it &'l bet a #9 TTT on it. --FJA) It was excellent. ~~ Smart trick, reversing the printing on The Living Lie so I couldn't easily hunt for  Ackermanese blots. ([[?]] It was done with mirrors!) What was idea of doing the second page in ortho-type? (To make it fit.) ~~ Coburn's piece good, and sequel eagerly awaited. ~~ Book Reviews better than usual. ~~ Ray Bradbury's production, like your other April Foo articles, was good. Humor is the outstanding likeable trait in Imagination! ~~ Hence, discontinuance of Phantastiquestions small loss. (U mean U wouldnt miss the Dept if omitted? We have no intention of discontinuing it. For, for instance, subscriber Bleiler wrote in our Feb ish: "In my opinion 'Phantastiquestions' is the most interesting part of 'Madge."') ~~ Resurrection picks pu amazingly after last month's bad start. ~~ Voice of the Condemn-nation was probably a better title. (How about ACKERMAN'S ASSASI-NATION? --Vox Populi. Who is this "Vox Populi"? I bet U ther aint no such persn. Probly a sudonym for Olon F. Wiggens. --FJA) ~~ Thought the signature vaguely resembles Wollheim's, I don't believe he wrote that letter. He's nuts, but he writes better than that. One thing does ring true, though-- 'Rationalization of spelling is desirable, but NOT NOW.' There, in truth, speaketh the Bolshevik. Nevertheless, I am really surprised. Can it be that Wollheim actually prefers that reform come by Revolution rather than by Evolution? FooFoo forbid! ~~ Dad reads sf at times. Does that make me a congenital idiot?" (At least a congenial one, Jack!)
He[[?][ H Mellot[[?]] via airvelope from 1053 Evergreen Av, Millvale/Pa: "The ornate chirography of the address on April issue of IMAGINATION, duly received by yours truly, leads me to suspect that the hand of Ackerman was somewhere involved in this unexpected byt very welcome gift. While no comments were requested, I think it possible that you might be interested in the reaction of a purely unbiased reader of pubication; one who was formerly a science-fiction reader of the first water. ~~ The jovial spirit manifest in those wretchedly mimeographed pages is a real delight to my old heart. It compensates for the weird paragraph-indentation arrangement. It compenstates for the unholy methods of spelling that doubtless have the good brothers Webster thrashing madly about in their respective rough-boxes--having by this time worn through their coffins by maintaining a perpetual rotary motion. The puns are unspeakable; a demon's delight. I couldn't think up worse ones myself. Best one in the issue, in my opinion, appears in last sentenct of article on page 8, reading 'I was just WESSO L...!' ~~ When I consider the countless fan-magazines, societies, leagues, etc. that now flourish, I look back with pardonable pride on the days of the ORIGINAL science-fiction society--The Boys Scientifiction Club, Forrest J. Ackerman, President. Ro-

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IMAGINATION! #8 38 May 15 Another cover was ofcourse dispatcht subscriber Speer.) ~~ Quite a few Oklahomans are also getting acquainted with Jupiter Pluvius for the first time, Russ. ~~ Dear old RAP's forecast was very welcome. Hope he really goes to town with Amazing. S'- Help me, if Spicy Fantasy appears, I'll scream! ~~ And Sneeks[[?]] is still sneeking around. Why doesn't some editor lay hold of the gent and put the thumbscrews on him for another story? What the heck--the only story of his I read was his final, serious one. ~~ I'm still waiting to see Foojak Among yOur Moms. ~~ If Fantascience Filmart were like the last one all the time, 'twould be an improvement. ~~ Put me on the back--I read all of Onward Esp, thus placing myself among the intelligenta personoj. (Jos Gakspir, via intereso ostas admirebla! Erdstelulov.) ~~ Ray for DrAcula! More! ~~ Yerke's Michelismanuscript was good so far as it went--though I was disappointed to find he even thought revolution necessary--but I fear it'll not discourage our Communist friends one whit. The issue will have to be decided in 1939. ~~ Ah! Now I know who Azygous is! Perhaps not the same Azygous as did Call It What You Will-- but the author of Telefony Fantasticonversation was none other than Richard Wilson, Jr! I accused him of being Solitare, and while I turned out to be wrong on that ("Solitaire", a scientifictionewshound, we understand to b the pename of fan David Ackerman Kyle), I must've put the idea in his head. Anyway, I'll stake my no 2 TFGBulletin on it, that Dicky did that article. (I dout it &'l bet a #9 TTT on it. --FJA) It was excellent. ~~ Smart trick, reversing the printing on The Living Lie so I couldn't easily hunt for Ackermanese blots. ([[?]] It was done with mirrors!) What was idea of doing the second page in ortho-type? (To make it fit.) ~~ Coburn's piece good, and sequel eagerly awaited. ~~ Book Reviews better than usual. ~~ Ray Bradbury's production, like your other April Foo articles, was good. Humor is the outstanding likeable trait in Imagination! ~~ Hence, discontinuance of Phantastiquestions small loss. (U mean U wouldnt miss the Dept if omitted? We have no intention of discontinuing it. For, for instance, subscriber Bleiler wrote in our Feb ish: "In my opinion 'Phantastiquestions' is the most interesting part of 'Madge."') ~~ Resurrection picks pu amazingly after last month's bad start. ~~ Voice of the Condemn-nation was probably a better title. (How about ACKERMAN'S ASSASI-NATION? --Vox Populi. Who is this "Vox Populi"? I bet U ther aint no such persn. Probly a sudonym for Olon F. Wiggens. --FJA) ~~ Thought the signature vaguely resembles Wollheim's, I don't believe he wrote that letter. He's nuts, but he writes better than that. One thing does ring true, though-- 'Rationalization of spelling is desirable, but NOT NOW.' There, in truth, speaketh the Bolshevik. Nevertheless, I am really surprised. Can it be that Wollheim actually prefers that reform come by Revolution rather than by Evolution? FooFoo forbid! ~~ Dad reads sf at times. Does that make me a congenital idiot?" (At least a congenial one, Jack!) He[[?][ H Mellot[[?]] via airvelope from 1053 Evergreen Av, Millvale/Pa: "The ornate chirography of the address on April issue of IMAGINATION, duly received by yours truly, leads me to suspect that the hand of Ackerman was somewhere involved in this unexpected byt very welcome gift. While no comments were requested, I think it possible that you might be interested in the reaction of a purely unbiased reader of pubication; one who was formerly a science-fiction reader of the first water. ~~ The jovial spirit manifest in those wretchedly mimeographed pages is a real delight to my old heart. It compensates for the weird paragraph-indentation arrangement. It compenstates for the unholy methods of spelling that doubtless have the good brothers Webster thrashing madly about in their respective rough-boxes--having by this time worn through their coffins by maintaining a perpetual rotary motion. The puns are unspeakable; a demon's delight. I couldn't think up worse ones myself. Best one in the issue, in my opinion, appears in last sentenct of article on page 8, reading 'I was just WESSO L...!' ~~ When I consider the countless fan-magazines, societies, leagues, etc. that now flourish, I look back with pardonable pride on the days of the ORIGINAL science-fiction society--The Boys Scientifiction Club, Forrest J. Ackerman, President. Ro-