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A Tale of the 'Evans, v. 3, issue 2, Spring 1945
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(This is NOT the beautiful Wiedenbeck heading I had planned to use.) A Tale of The 'Evans VOLUME THE THREE SPRING, TRA LA LA!, 1945 NUMBER THE TWO Messieurs et Mesdames, I salute you. I kneel humbly before you. I kiss your feet. My ghod, why don't you wash them! Since the birth of my other mag, THE TIME-BINDER, I have seriously considered what to do about my publishing activities. The fine and serious letters I have received concerning THE TIME-BINDER almost all declared that it must be continued. At the same time, I hate to kill off my first-born, A TALE OF THE 'EVANS. So I have decided that I will try to maintain both. A TALE will be for purely FAPAstuff; for humor or what passes for humor in my opinion; for such stories as I may wish to print, and all that there sort of stuff. THE TIME-BINDER will contain the more serious essays, letters, and so on written by myself or by interested friends. Typing the name of this rag just now, reminds me that Art Widner asked the why of the apostrophe. When I first started this, I was new to FAPA, and thought that everything in it must be slanted towards StF of Fantasy. Using an old, old play on my last name, I conceived that it would make my mag more Scientifictional if I made it A TALE OF THE (H) 'E(A)VANS. I'll admit the spelling was wrong even then, for the last "A" should have been an "E", but with all the "E's" that I have in my name, our branch of the family doesn't use that last vowel as an "E". (Now there's something new in the way of a filler, at least.) I tried, honest I did, to start out my Mailing Musings by calling each magazine reviewed "lousy", "stinking", "worthless", "egotistical hogwash", etc., etc., ad nauseum, but I just couldn't do it. I guess you folks will just have to put up with Th' Ol' Foo Being Old Sweetness and Light. Gosh sakes, there's enough war and general messiness in this old world now, without going out of my way to look for more. There's much more fun looking at the bright side of things -- and surely in a bunch of stuff like a FAPA mailing there is plenty to merit one's unalloyed delight. Sure, there's things in the mailing I don't like, but SOMEONE else does (even if it is only the guy who published it). So why make him feel bad by criticizing it when he probably knows a heck of a lot more about it than I do, and my opinion is all wet, no doubt.
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(This is NOT the beautiful Wiedenbeck heading I had planned to use.) A Tale of The 'Evans VOLUME THE THREE SPRING, TRA LA LA!, 1945 NUMBER THE TWO Messieurs et Mesdames, I salute you. I kneel humbly before you. I kiss your feet. My ghod, why don't you wash them! Since the birth of my other mag, THE TIME-BINDER, I have seriously considered what to do about my publishing activities. The fine and serious letters I have received concerning THE TIME-BINDER almost all declared that it must be continued. At the same time, I hate to kill off my first-born, A TALE OF THE 'EVANS. So I have decided that I will try to maintain both. A TALE will be for purely FAPAstuff; for humor or what passes for humor in my opinion; for such stories as I may wish to print, and all that there sort of stuff. THE TIME-BINDER will contain the more serious essays, letters, and so on written by myself or by interested friends. Typing the name of this rag just now, reminds me that Art Widner asked the why of the apostrophe. When I first started this, I was new to FAPA, and thought that everything in it must be slanted towards StF of Fantasy. Using an old, old play on my last name, I conceived that it would make my mag more Scientifictional if I made it A TALE OF THE (H) 'E(A)VANS. I'll admit the spelling was wrong even then, for the last "A" should have been an "E", but with all the "E's" that I have in my name, our branch of the family doesn't use that last vowel as an "E". (Now there's something new in the way of a filler, at least.) I tried, honest I did, to start out my Mailing Musings by calling each magazine reviewed "lousy", "stinking", "worthless", "egotistical hogwash", etc., etc., ad nauseum, but I just couldn't do it. I guess you folks will just have to put up with Th' Ol' Foo Being Old Sweetness and Light. Gosh sakes, there's enough war and general messiness in this old world now, without going out of my way to look for more. There's much more fun looking at the bright side of things -- and surely in a bunch of stuff like a FAPA mailing there is plenty to merit one's unalloyed delight. Sure, there's things in the mailing I don't like, but SOMEONE else does (even if it is only the guy who published it). So why make him feel bad by criticizing it when he probably knows a heck of a lot more about it than I do, and my opinion is all wet, no doubt.
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