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K'taogm-m: Thoughts and Random Opinions of Donald A. Wollheim of 98-50 67th Avenue, Forest Hills, N.Y. Vol. 1, #1 (Second Edition) Written Jan. 29, 1945. Published March 1945 for Vanguard A.P.A.

In the first Gapa Vanguard, we said that we were not at all sure that we would bother to offer our reasons for joining the new Vanguard APA; we were not sure that what members of the Fapa thought would be worth comment. Still and all, we do owe much to that club, of which we were co-founder and officer several times. We are still a member and we intend to remain active therein. Then, why should we feel any desire to join another organization of essentially the same type? It is a fair question and deserves a fair answer. 

Essentially, it is a simple answer. Simply that we felt that the Fapa was somehow not fulfilling our desires. It just didn't seem to quite satify us. 

This may be taken two ways. Either it failed or its worth and merit to live up to what we should like, or else it failed to do its duty to fantasy fandom, of which it was a powerful faction. Again, the answer would be that it did not meet its duties both ways.

Somehow the greater part of the Fapa seemed rather unpleasantly busy with self-analysis. The Rothman stuff, but much more poorly done. Rothman, after all, is a deep thinker even if a muddle-headed one. The others were just muddle-headed. Then, again, the tendency of xxx one section to regard itself as a "brain trust" and to attempt to control and monopolize the organization was irritating. 

It would not have been irritating had this brain trust been actually what it claimed. Actually it was just te muddle-headed self-xxxxxxxxxxxx analysts with the largest vocabularies. They mistook their wordage for intelligence. Unfortunately a study of their stands, the actual doings and movements of such as Art Widner, Al Ashey, Milty Rothman and others reveal only misunderstanding, lack of taste, lack of vision, lack of initiative, and above all--above everything else-- lack of a pioneering mentality. 

Degler would have said they lacked cosmic minds. Only Degler didn't quite know what he was talking about. Olaf Stapledon does, Raym Washington does. John Michel does. And the term would have been well taken. They do lack cosmic minds. In their own refined fashion, they are disciples of J. Chapman Miske… with perhaps a touch of envy for Forrest J. Ackerman.

Their discussions, their debates, held little of interest for me because of the hopelessness of entering into argument with essentially closed minds. Now this may seem a xxxxxx paradox--if they were debaters how could they have closed minds? Certainly they were liberals?

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K'taogm-m: Thoughts and Random Opinions of Donald A. Wollheim of 98-50 67th Avenue, Forest Hills, N.Y. Vol. 1, #1 (Second Edition) Written Jan. 29, 1945. Published March 1945 for Vanguard A.P.A. In the first Gapa Vanguard, we said that we were not at all sure that we would bother to offer our reasons for joining the new Vanguard APA; we were not sure that what members of the Fapa thought would be worth comment. Still and all, we do owe much to that club, of which we were co-founder and officer several times. We are still a member and we intend to remain active therein. Then, why should we feel any desire to join another organization of essentially the same type? It is a fair question and deserves a fair answer. Essentially, it is a simple answer. Simply that we felt that the Fapa was somehow not fulfilling our desires. It just didn't seem to quite satify us. This may be taken two ways. Either it failed or its worth and merit to live up to what we should like, or else it failed to do its duty to fantasy fandom, of which it was a powerful faction. Again, the answer would be that it did not meet its duties both ways. Somehow the greater part of the Fapa seemed rather unpleasantly busy with self-analysis. The Rothman stuff, but much more poorly done. Rothman, after all, is a deep thinker even if a muddle-headed one. The others were just muddle-headed. Then, again, the tendency of xxx one section to regard itself as a "brain trust" and to attempt to control and monopolize the organization was irritating. It would not have been irritating had this brain trust been actually what it claimed. Actually it was just te muddle-headed self-xxxxxxxxxxxx analysts with the largest vocabularies. They mistook their wordage for intelligence. Unfortunately a study of their stands, the actual doings and movements of such as Art Widner, Al Ashey, Milty Rothman and others reveal only misunderstanding, lack of taste, lack of vision, lack of initiative, and above all--above everything else-- lack of a pioneering mentality. Degler would have said they lacked cosmic minds. Only Degler didn't quite know what he was talking about. Olaf Stapledon does, Raym Washington does. John Michel does. And the term would have been well taken. They do lack cosmic minds. In their own refined fashion, they are disciples of J. Chapman Miske… with perhaps a touch of envy for Forrest J. Ackerman. Their discussions, their debates, held little of interest for me because of the hopelessness of entering into argument with essentially closed minds. Now this may seem a xxxxxx paradox--if they were debaters how could they have closed minds? Certainly they were liberals?