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Horizons, v. 3, issue 3, whole no. 11, March 1942
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HORIZONS IN DEFENSE OF US what [illegible] means when he said "a trifling difference in form" or something like that. Surely not that themes, episodes, developments, and such stuff occur in a standard order in overtures and in another order in symphonic poems? [Illegible] "Avatar" symphony is fantastic -- or more precisely, it does have a fantastic program appended to the score. You can't sanely deny it. Laurence Gilman called "Also Sprach Zarathustra", "The remarkable philosophic-romantic fantasy of Friedrich Hietxsche". If I have to rely on someone's opinion of the matter besides my own, I think Gillman was a far better judge of the matter than Pete. There were also some things in Duncans article that can't properly be treated here. They being about matters on which it's impossible to refer to a book and quote. For instance, there were some remarks about the ethics of [illegible]'s philosophy, or something like that; I don't recall precisely. There was no point in bringing the matter up anyway, since I expressed no opinion on the Strauss work one way or the other. I believe I was also chided for my love of the operas of Richard Wagner, and it was pointed out that Hitler enjoys them. Where in a great temptation here: I could go into great detail pointing out the things we must shun because Hitler likes them (like all vegetables), and the things we must make ourselves enjoy because Hitler dislikes them, such as lobster, communism, and everything about the greater part of the world. Sorry to have bored the rest of you. I had to get this out of my eye [illegible]. Findley can now dispose of the similar article he has promised to publish for the past several years. …………………………………………………… ANOTHER YEAR OF UNKNOWN -- Not to mention Unknown Woirlds. For those who came in late, we make some sort of note on each story in each issue. Up until around the middle of the year we rate the stories (from memory) from 1 to 5; half-way through the year, we began rating them, immediately after first reading, from 1 to 10 and those are included here as soon as they begin. For those who endured the first reviews: you just have to ignore these if you don't like them. We're going to the work of putting out this fanzine, and are determined to use several pages of it per issue for this for our own amusement. (Darn, I'm trying to remember not to say we and us and our from now on, but it's hard work. This and the preceding pages are the first typed of this issue; the December FAPA mailing hasn't even been mailed yet. We merely want to get an early start.) Andiamo! Unknown, February, 1941. We can't say anything bright about the cover each issue, so we'll skip that part of it after this note. What we think should be told somewhere is who does the tiny little squares on the covers. They are rarely if ever reductions of interior illustrations. They look like Cartier's work; while it isn't a thing to lose sleep over, still it's nice to know everything possible about the prozines. The Mislaid Charm: 4. This would probably have been given 8, and possibly even 9, on the 1-to-10 scale. We'd better be safe and not give it top figure under the 1-5 system. We have it earmarked for re-reading at that future date when we've promised myself (changing member in mid-sentence!) I shall put aside every consideration for three months, and during those [illegible] days spend four hours a day sleeping, and the rest of the time reading all the stories I liked in the past. The Ultimate Egoist: 3. It didn't impress us tremendously. The theme could scarcely be called new; everyone has toyed with the idea at one time or another. Offhand, no examples of it in fiction comes to mind, but there certainly are quite a few. It wasn't told with too tremendous skill. I hate stories that begin as it does, and the whole first section is unquestionably draggy. It would have been nice to know who E. Hunter Waldo Hunter really is, and it would be even nicer to know what Doc Swisher did about his files when the last two names got reversed on a later story. The Crossroads: 4. No one else seemed to like this very much. I did. I thought it as good as Phillips' story, which is saying quite a lot. It's the very best humor Hubbard has written in the fantasy line; it sounds amazingly like de Camp at his best.
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HORIZONS IN DEFENSE OF US what [illegible] means when he said "a trifling difference in form" or something like that. Surely not that themes, episodes, developments, and such stuff occur in a standard order in overtures and in another order in symphonic poems? [Illegible] "Avatar" symphony is fantastic -- or more precisely, it does have a fantastic program appended to the score. You can't sanely deny it. Laurence Gilman called "Also Sprach Zarathustra", "The remarkable philosophic-romantic fantasy of Friedrich Hietxsche". If I have to rely on someone's opinion of the matter besides my own, I think Gillman was a far better judge of the matter than Pete. There were also some things in Duncans article that can't properly be treated here. They being about matters on which it's impossible to refer to a book and quote. For instance, there were some remarks about the ethics of [illegible]'s philosophy, or something like that; I don't recall precisely. There was no point in bringing the matter up anyway, since I expressed no opinion on the Strauss work one way or the other. I believe I was also chided for my love of the operas of Richard Wagner, and it was pointed out that Hitler enjoys them. Where in a great temptation here: I could go into great detail pointing out the things we must shun because Hitler likes them (like all vegetables), and the things we must make ourselves enjoy because Hitler dislikes them, such as lobster, communism, and everything about the greater part of the world. Sorry to have bored the rest of you. I had to get this out of my eye [illegible]. Findley can now dispose of the similar article he has promised to publish for the past several years. …………………………………………………… ANOTHER YEAR OF UNKNOWN -- Not to mention Unknown Woirlds. For those who came in late, we make some sort of note on each story in each issue. Up until around the middle of the year we rate the stories (from memory) from 1 to 5; half-way through the year, we began rating them, immediately after first reading, from 1 to 10 and those are included here as soon as they begin. For those who endured the first reviews: you just have to ignore these if you don't like them. We're going to the work of putting out this fanzine, and are determined to use several pages of it per issue for this for our own amusement. (Darn, I'm trying to remember not to say we and us and our from now on, but it's hard work. This and the preceding pages are the first typed of this issue; the December FAPA mailing hasn't even been mailed yet. We merely want to get an early start.) Andiamo! Unknown, February, 1941. We can't say anything bright about the cover each issue, so we'll skip that part of it after this note. What we think should be told somewhere is who does the tiny little squares on the covers. They are rarely if ever reductions of interior illustrations. They look like Cartier's work; while it isn't a thing to lose sleep over, still it's nice to know everything possible about the prozines. The Mislaid Charm: 4. This would probably have been given 8, and possibly even 9, on the 1-to-10 scale. We'd better be safe and not give it top figure under the 1-5 system. We have it earmarked for re-reading at that future date when we've promised myself (changing member in mid-sentence!) I shall put aside every consideration for three months, and during those [illegible] days spend four hours a day sleeping, and the rest of the time reading all the stories I liked in the past. The Ultimate Egoist: 3. It didn't impress us tremendously. The theme could scarcely be called new; everyone has toyed with the idea at one time or another. Offhand, no examples of it in fiction comes to mind, but there certainly are quite a few. It wasn't told with too tremendous skill. I hate stories that begin as it does, and the whole first section is unquestionably draggy. It would have been nice to know who E. Hunter Waldo Hunter really is, and it would be even nicer to know what Doc Swisher did about his files when the last two names got reversed on a later story. The Crossroads: 4. No one else seemed to like this very much. I did. I thought it as good as Phillips' story, which is saying quite a lot. It's the very best humor Hubbard has written in the fantasy line; it sounds amazingly like de Camp at his best.
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