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Horizons, v. 3, issue 3, whole no. 11, March 1942
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HORIZONS GLANCING BEHIND US This is continued from page 4. Next time I'll try to avoid such a thing. Sound Off: vol. 1, no. 3. Very sorry to see Joe talking as he does on p. 1. The satire issue isn't quite up to the previous one's standard. Ackermann's letter is thoroughly enjoyable, though. I suspect that obliterine is the trade name for a certain type of fluid for correcting errors on stencils, down in Australia, just as "mimeograph" really means only one certain kind of ink-and-stencil duplicator and yet most people use it to cover the whole class. Obliterine rolls neatly off the tongue, however, and I'll try to remember to use it. '' I beg to differ; intelligence and knowledge are not "almost inseparable". The "intelligent" person, if you mean intelligent as having greater capabilities, is apt to want a lot of knowledge, and the "unintelligent" person is likely not to be able to absorb too much. But there the resemblance ends. Beethoven was unable, for instance, to multiply and probably his knowledge was no greater than that of a forth-grade school child in subjects like they teach in the schools. But I think we can get along without people who make high marks on intelligence tests and be content with Beethovens. The person in Hagerstown whom I consider more "intelligent" is a thoroughly disreputable man of perhaps fifty, drunk half of the time, and with little academic knowledge. Further, inability to "get along with people" doesn't necessarily make one unhappy. It all depends on the individual. I don't consider myself completely introverted -- or, rather, not as badly introverted as some fans; not that I think an extremely introverted person a bad thing, understand -- but am on the whole happier when working at something alone and am quite certain I could get along without companionship of any sort for weeks at a time without getting lonely. I don't shun crowds or dislike companionship, by any means; it's just that I'm basically a lone wolf. Last Testament: Dec., 1941. Quite wonderful -- but I've just finished mimeographing Sardonyx for Russell and therein are such learned remarks on this publication that I'm ashamed to say anything myself. What I might and would [illegible] so useless and elementary. I hope to see this regularly. (And while on the subject of Sardonyx, if four pages of this new issue are badly mimeoed, don't blame me. Russell didn't cut the stencils for those pages deep enough, and results are pretty awful, even though I practically bathed the mimeo in ink to try to get good reproduction. If, on the other hand, the whole thing looks fairly good, it means that he has re-cut those four stencils and I ran them off anew. If therefore pages are faint, be sure to struggle through them anyway, for one contains a glowing and of course wholly deserved tribute to Harry Warner. Which proves that I did my best to mimeo them correctly; I certainly wouldn't make nice things about myself hard to read! .......................................... WORDS OF THE WISE Wishful Thinking: "Would that mine adversary had written a book," Book of Job. Opinion: "Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable." Johnson. Thought for a Sunshiny Morning: "It costs me never a stab or squirm, / To tread by chance upon a worm. / 'Aha, my little friend,' I say, / 'Your clan will pay me back some day.'" D. Palmer Character: "She was such a kind-hearted woman that she heated the water before drowning the kittens." Paine. Maxim: "Truth is more of a stranger than fiction." Twain. Progress: "Columbus sailed the ocean blue / In fourteen hundred ninety-two; / That is much more than we can do / In nineteen hundred forty-two." (Sorry: forgot to center this last item!)
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HORIZONS GLANCING BEHIND US This is continued from page 4. Next time I'll try to avoid such a thing. Sound Off: vol. 1, no. 3. Very sorry to see Joe talking as he does on p. 1. The satire issue isn't quite up to the previous one's standard. Ackermann's letter is thoroughly enjoyable, though. I suspect that obliterine is the trade name for a certain type of fluid for correcting errors on stencils, down in Australia, just as "mimeograph" really means only one certain kind of ink-and-stencil duplicator and yet most people use it to cover the whole class. Obliterine rolls neatly off the tongue, however, and I'll try to remember to use it. '' I beg to differ; intelligence and knowledge are not "almost inseparable". The "intelligent" person, if you mean intelligent as having greater capabilities, is apt to want a lot of knowledge, and the "unintelligent" person is likely not to be able to absorb too much. But there the resemblance ends. Beethoven was unable, for instance, to multiply and probably his knowledge was no greater than that of a forth-grade school child in subjects like they teach in the schools. But I think we can get along without people who make high marks on intelligence tests and be content with Beethovens. The person in Hagerstown whom I consider more "intelligent" is a thoroughly disreputable man of perhaps fifty, drunk half of the time, and with little academic knowledge. Further, inability to "get along with people" doesn't necessarily make one unhappy. It all depends on the individual. I don't consider myself completely introverted -- or, rather, not as badly introverted as some fans; not that I think an extremely introverted person a bad thing, understand -- but am on the whole happier when working at something alone and am quite certain I could get along without companionship of any sort for weeks at a time without getting lonely. I don't shun crowds or dislike companionship, by any means; it's just that I'm basically a lone wolf. Last Testament: Dec., 1941. Quite wonderful -- but I've just finished mimeographing Sardonyx for Russell and therein are such learned remarks on this publication that I'm ashamed to say anything myself. What I might and would [illegible] so useless and elementary. I hope to see this regularly. (And while on the subject of Sardonyx, if four pages of this new issue are badly mimeoed, don't blame me. Russell didn't cut the stencils for those pages deep enough, and results are pretty awful, even though I practically bathed the mimeo in ink to try to get good reproduction. If, on the other hand, the whole thing looks fairly good, it means that he has re-cut those four stencils and I ran them off anew. If therefore pages are faint, be sure to struggle through them anyway, for one contains a glowing and of course wholly deserved tribute to Harry Warner. Which proves that I did my best to mimeo them correctly; I certainly wouldn't make nice things about myself hard to read! .......................................... WORDS OF THE WISE Wishful Thinking: "Would that mine adversary had written a book," Book of Job. Opinion: "Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable." Johnson. Thought for a Sunshiny Morning: "It costs me never a stab or squirm, / To tread by chance upon a worm. / 'Aha, my little friend,' I say, / 'Your clan will pay me back some day.'" D. Palmer Character: "She was such a kind-hearted woman that she heated the water before drowning the kittens." Paine. Maxim: "Truth is more of a stranger than fiction." Twain. Progress: "Columbus sailed the ocean blue / In fourteen hundred ninety-two; / That is much more than we can do / In nineteen hundred forty-two." (Sorry: forgot to center this last item!)
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