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PLENUM     Page eleven

action. It is the complacent optimists who would let events take their own course; the ones who see how bad things can be and who know that it can happen here are the ones who "take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them."

(Hey, Speer, how do you punctuate a quotation such as above, where I changed the question mark into a period?)

Despite the fact that I usually disagree with most of the items published in The Timebinder, I think it's a valuable part of the FAPA.

GLOM: Amoosing and not confoosing.

FANDANGO: Laney is a guy I seem to agree with most of the time. I'm looking forward to meeting him in July.

Re cigarettes and nylons: I ain't arguing about that. The dames scrambling for nylons came to my attention after I returned to the States, and they are more disgusting than the kids fighting for butts. It's understandable that Europeans should dig in garbage heaps for necessary food -- what I don't get is going to such extremes for something like tobacco. Of course, the reason I don't get it is because I'm not addicted to the stuff. But there is the point. If addiction to cigarettes causes such effects, then it is a factor in our civilization which must be watched carefully. The nylon thing is more or less of a freak -- mob hysteria brought on by advertising and, of course, a real shortage of any old kind of hose.

So Laney wants a list of my publishings. Now if he kept FAPA mailings intact he wouldn't have such trouble. But humpf, my dear Laney -- the only two issues of Milty's Mag undated are those you mimeod yourself. The ones of Dec 1943 and March 1944, originating from Oregon State college. If there are any  more, you describe them to me. Too much trouble to go rooting thru my file. You can always identify them by seeing what part of the world they spring from.

Speaking of files, it is now my turn to brag about filing systems. For the moment I have sufficient lebensraum, having just built a magnificent complete wall-full of shelves, but at the rate I'm gathering radio equipment I'm going to be cramped before long. (Just bought a 14-inch loudspeaker around which I'm going to build a hi-fidelity phonograph) There's not much problem arranging magazines -- just stand them on end in order of dates --- that takes half of my shelves.

I don't have enough books to make much problem -- about 230 in all. "Respectable" science fiction such as the anthologies are in the bookcase downstairs in the living room. More irreputable fiction occupies a bookcase in the upstairs den. The half of my new shelves unoccupied by magazines contains foreign

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PLENUM Page eleven action. It is the complacent optimists who would let events take their own course; the ones who see how bad things can be and who know that it can happen here are the ones who "take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them." (Hey, Speer, how do you punctuate a quotation such as above, where I changed the question mark into a period?) Despite the fact that I usually disagree with most of the items published in The Timebinder, I think it's a valuable part of the FAPA. GLOM: Amoosing and not confoosing. FANDANGO: Laney is a guy I seem to agree with most of the time. I'm looking forward to meeting him in July. Re cigarettes and nylons: I ain't arguing about that. The dames scrambling for nylons came to my attention after I returned to the States, and they are more disgusting than the kids fighting for butts. It's understandable that Europeans should dig in garbage heaps for necessary food -- what I don't get is going to such extremes for something like tobacco. Of course, the reason I don't get it is because I'm not addicted to the stuff. But there is the point. If addiction to cigarettes causes such effects, then it is a factor in our civilization which must be watched carefully. The nylon thing is more or less of a freak -- mob hysteria brought on by advertising and, of course, a real shortage of any old kind of hose. So Laney wants a list of my publishings. Now if he kept FAPA mailings intact he wouldn't have such trouble. But humpf, my dear Laney -- the only two issues of Milty's Mag undated are those you mimeod yourself. The ones of Dec 1943 and March 1944, originating from Oregon State college. If there are any more, you describe them to me. Too much trouble to go rooting thru my file. You can always identify them by seeing what part of the world they spring from. Speaking of files, it is now my turn to brag about filing systems. For the moment I have sufficient lebensraum, having just built a magnificent complete wall-full of shelves, but at the rate I'm gathering radio equipment I'm going to be cramped before long. (Just bought a 14-inch loudspeaker around which I'm going to build a hi-fidelity phonograph) There's not much problem arranging magazines -- just stand them on end in order of dates --- that takes half of my shelves. I don't have enough books to make much problem -- about 230 in all. "Respectable" science fiction such as the anthologies are in the bookcase downstairs in the living room. More irreputable fiction occupies a bookcase in the upstairs den. The half of my new shelves unoccupied by magazines contains foreign