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Fandango, v. 2, issue 1, whole no. 5, Summer 1944
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THEPHANTAGRAPH. (Two issues). The essay on oil hit right into something that has been worrying me a great deal, too. Perhaps the collapse of the machine age, which has so often been depicted in stf, may actually be upon us, something most of us actually will see. HCK's anti-hiss campaign always has seemed somewhat futile to me in that it was attacking one minute facet of the vast mass of poor writing in pulp fiction. Whether or not the verb "to hiss" has perhaps taken on wider connotations than it at one time had, I believe that Koenig's biting wit might better be turned to other objects. -oOo- FLEETING MOMENTS. This is the type of thing which FAPA should encourage: serious attempts at artistic achievement, far more worthwhile than such ephemeral items as Fandango, or Suspro. -oOo- MILTY'S MAG. The prayer wheel turning should be directed at Mel Brown; I cut a stencil for him while he did the needful to Milty. However, one or another of the Outsiders will mimeograph anything Milty cares to stencil for FAPA. -oOo- PHANNY. Generally speaking, I agree with the lead article, Fandom as a Way of Life, from the opening remark that points out the necessity of miggling with non-fan humanity to the punch line about the $9 per week. I think, however, that the reason most fans tend to look on the dark side of things is simply that most of us are highly-strung, unstable, nervous, and extremely sensitive; couple this with our almost pathological tendency toward introspection, and it is obvious that the end result with be pessimism, introverrsion, and Ivory-Towerism. But of course the idea of setting up Slan Center as an arsenal of progress and a time capsule to preserve civilization is as laughable as it is pathetic. Poor little "slans"!... Your mention of the Los Angeles bible burners would be more complete if you pointed out that there is only one of us who indulges in such childishness. He also gets all the free cigarettes he can from the USO and such places and destroys them, so as to diminish the amount of nicotine consumed in the world. His name is ...well, he is our most prominent local fan. Look on the Widner poll if you can't guess. No wonder the LASFS blew up in his face! -oOo- A TALE OF THE EVANS. I dislike strongly to have to jump on a man who is probably the most sincere and solid of all the older fans. There is no question that EEEvans is one of our most worthwhile members, and that for a man of his age, has forbearance in dealing with and tolerating the frequently irritating group known as fandom deserves orchids rather than attack. But there are two attitudes (or rather two facets of the same attitude) shown in this current issue which I dislike so violently that I find it impossible to hold my peace. The remarks (pp. 3-4) on alcohol and prohibition show a complete failure to grasp the whole facts in the case. Evans talks as though people could be trained to avoid indulgence in something which perhaps injures them in the long run; he seems to feel that prohibitory laws are desirable. In the first place, there never has been any accurate and non-partisan scientific research conducted concerning the longtime effect of a moderate use of alcohol over a period of several generations. Distillers will tell us it hurts us not at all; prohibitionists will tell us that one glass of beer and we're on our way to the gutter. Neither, obviously, know what they're talking about, and both have axes to grind. Secondly, most alcohol users take this drug to escape from defects in either their environments or their own faulty personalities without a few drinks; life is intolerable--with them, it may be borne with some degree of fortitude, perhaps may even seem rosy for a time. -- 6 --
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THEPHANTAGRAPH. (Two issues). The essay on oil hit right into something that has been worrying me a great deal, too. Perhaps the collapse of the machine age, which has so often been depicted in stf, may actually be upon us, something most of us actually will see. HCK's anti-hiss campaign always has seemed somewhat futile to me in that it was attacking one minute facet of the vast mass of poor writing in pulp fiction. Whether or not the verb "to hiss" has perhaps taken on wider connotations than it at one time had, I believe that Koenig's biting wit might better be turned to other objects. -oOo- FLEETING MOMENTS. This is the type of thing which FAPA should encourage: serious attempts at artistic achievement, far more worthwhile than such ephemeral items as Fandango, or Suspro. -oOo- MILTY'S MAG. The prayer wheel turning should be directed at Mel Brown; I cut a stencil for him while he did the needful to Milty. However, one or another of the Outsiders will mimeograph anything Milty cares to stencil for FAPA. -oOo- PHANNY. Generally speaking, I agree with the lead article, Fandom as a Way of Life, from the opening remark that points out the necessity of miggling with non-fan humanity to the punch line about the $9 per week. I think, however, that the reason most fans tend to look on the dark side of things is simply that most of us are highly-strung, unstable, nervous, and extremely sensitive; couple this with our almost pathological tendency toward introspection, and it is obvious that the end result with be pessimism, introverrsion, and Ivory-Towerism. But of course the idea of setting up Slan Center as an arsenal of progress and a time capsule to preserve civilization is as laughable as it is pathetic. Poor little "slans"!... Your mention of the Los Angeles bible burners would be more complete if you pointed out that there is only one of us who indulges in such childishness. He also gets all the free cigarettes he can from the USO and such places and destroys them, so as to diminish the amount of nicotine consumed in the world. His name is ...well, he is our most prominent local fan. Look on the Widner poll if you can't guess. No wonder the LASFS blew up in his face! -oOo- A TALE OF THE EVANS. I dislike strongly to have to jump on a man who is probably the most sincere and solid of all the older fans. There is no question that EEEvans is one of our most worthwhile members, and that for a man of his age, has forbearance in dealing with and tolerating the frequently irritating group known as fandom deserves orchids rather than attack. But there are two attitudes (or rather two facets of the same attitude) shown in this current issue which I dislike so violently that I find it impossible to hold my peace. The remarks (pp. 3-4) on alcohol and prohibition show a complete failure to grasp the whole facts in the case. Evans talks as though people could be trained to avoid indulgence in something which perhaps injures them in the long run; he seems to feel that prohibitory laws are desirable. In the first place, there never has been any accurate and non-partisan scientific research conducted concerning the longtime effect of a moderate use of alcohol over a period of several generations. Distillers will tell us it hurts us not at all; prohibitionists will tell us that one glass of beer and we're on our way to the gutter. Neither, obviously, know what they're talking about, and both have axes to grind. Secondly, most alcohol users take this drug to escape from defects in either their environments or their own faulty personalities without a few drinks; life is intolerable--with them, it may be borne with some degree of fortitude, perhaps may even seem rosy for a time. -- 6 --
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