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Timebinder, v. 1, issue 4, 1945
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COMMENTS AND CRITICISMS EXCERPTS FROM THE MAIL-BAG EDWARD ELMER SMITH, PH. D. My silence on THE TIME-BINDER was deliberate -- and probably should have been maintained. For, frankly, at one and the same time, I like it and I don't. It's too esoteric for the fan group -- and you put yourself in it with no reserve, and left yourself open wide to such damned idiots as the one who boasted of his scepticism, his not believing anything without proof, and then naively quoted as "proof" the world's greatest unhung liar! The trouble with a certain vociferous fraction of the S-F group is, as you already know, EE, that they can't think a lick. Sound and fury in copious amounts, yes -- but thought??? HORSE-FEATHERS!!! However, you know your reactions better than I do and perhaps there were enough who perceived what you meant to make the effort worthwhile, although I, personally, would probably curdle if I tried the like. I believe, with you, that man is on the up-grade; anyone who has read my stuff knows that I believe so. Also, your favorite poem, "Invictus", has for many years been even more than that to me. It has been one of my prime tenets of life. It got me fired from that exceptionally good job, at K. O. P., where all the gold braids have to be yes-men first, last and all the time, -- but on the other hand, it seems to be doing me no harm here (a job in which, by the way, I am having more fun than anything I have done for years and years.) For I do, and always will, thank God for an unconquerable soul...I am the master of my fate and I am the captain of my soul. But Everett old top, just how many people, do you think, who have skimmed over those immortal lines, have even the remotest conception of what they really mean? And the same goes for THE TIME-BINDER. It's really a terrific thing; but I'm so afraid that you are letting yourself in for being pilloried by certain nit-wits, who aren't dry behind the ears yet that it gives me goose-bumps. Remember the casting of the pearls before swine? Answer to Doctor Smith: Yes, I knew beforehand that I would be given, at the very least, a few "razzberries", if not worse. But I felt that I had something to say that some people would receive with gladness, and that it would be worth whatever might come my way in possible unpleasantness. And so it has proved. So many have thanked me for what I have attempt that it has added far more to my spiritual growth than any small and futile attempts to belittle my efforts. I am well satisfied. -- EEE. 15
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COMMENTS AND CRITICISMS EXCERPTS FROM THE MAIL-BAG EDWARD ELMER SMITH, PH. D. My silence on THE TIME-BINDER was deliberate -- and probably should have been maintained. For, frankly, at one and the same time, I like it and I don't. It's too esoteric for the fan group -- and you put yourself in it with no reserve, and left yourself open wide to such damned idiots as the one who boasted of his scepticism, his not believing anything without proof, and then naively quoted as "proof" the world's greatest unhung liar! The trouble with a certain vociferous fraction of the S-F group is, as you already know, EE, that they can't think a lick. Sound and fury in copious amounts, yes -- but thought??? HORSE-FEATHERS!!! However, you know your reactions better than I do and perhaps there were enough who perceived what you meant to make the effort worthwhile, although I, personally, would probably curdle if I tried the like. I believe, with you, that man is on the up-grade; anyone who has read my stuff knows that I believe so. Also, your favorite poem, "Invictus", has for many years been even more than that to me. It has been one of my prime tenets of life. It got me fired from that exceptionally good job, at K. O. P., where all the gold braids have to be yes-men first, last and all the time, -- but on the other hand, it seems to be doing me no harm here (a job in which, by the way, I am having more fun than anything I have done for years and years.) For I do, and always will, thank God for an unconquerable soul...I am the master of my fate and I am the captain of my soul. But Everett old top, just how many people, do you think, who have skimmed over those immortal lines, have even the remotest conception of what they really mean? And the same goes for THE TIME-BINDER. It's really a terrific thing; but I'm so afraid that you are letting yourself in for being pilloried by certain nit-wits, who aren't dry behind the ears yet that it gives me goose-bumps. Remember the casting of the pearls before swine? Answer to Doctor Smith: Yes, I knew beforehand that I would be given, at the very least, a few "razzberries", if not worse. But I felt that I had something to say that some people would receive with gladness, and that it would be worth whatever might come my way in possible unpleasantness. And so it has proved. So many have thanked me for what I have attempt that it has added far more to my spiritual growth than any small and futile attempts to belittle my efforts. I am well satisfied. -- EEE. 15
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