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Fandango, v. 2, issue 1, whole no. 5, Summer 1944
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Evans, apparently, fails to consider this escapist angle. I will freely grant that mankind would have no need for alcohol if all conditions were made so tolerable that there was nothing for him to escape from; however, I do not wish to see our anesthetic taken away from us until we are taken out of the torture chamber. I may perhaps be doing no more than to display my own lack of adjustment to life, but I personally have no desire to live without alcohol. I am a long way from being a dipsomaniac, but the fact remains that liquor softens the impact of life, and eases the tensions built up by the mere misery of having to live in so hideous and hateful a world. Whenever I find my own inner tensions building up to such a point I'm ready to explode, I go out on a good tear, and wake up the next morning relaxed, soothed, and ready to carry on somewhat more light-heartedly. While the liquor may injure me physically, it heals me psychically; in the long run, I feel that I benefit from it. Another advantage of alcohol is its beneficial effect in breaking down inhibitions. If Evans will reconstruct society in such a way as to remove most inhibitions from us, I will be quite happy to let him destroy the distilleries, and take my chances on dodging the other miseries by some other means. The other paragraph I disliked was the one about paying the piper. As long as "Al and Ollie and Fwqnkie" (HOW, by the way, does one pronounce "Fwqnkie"?) were willing to pay their own piping bills, I fail to see where anyone else had anything to complain about. Of course, if EEE had been stuck with performing these indulgers duties for them, he might have had something to yell about. The whole thing is just this; I feel EEE should be willing to let us all go to hell our own way, without recriminations or preaching. After all, EEE is not responsible for us, nor should he feel any obligation to help us climb out of any holes we may fall into. -oOo- GUTETO. The Madman of Mars was bad enough to suffer with in "English"--if we must now endure a translation into Esparanto....I submit that Morojo is certainly capable of giving us a fapazine of far more worthwhile content and general interest thatn GUTETO. Should stuff such as this be given credit as complying with mailing requirements? And don't forget to get your green and brown ribbons, kiddies! -oOo- SAPPHO. I am delighted to have this worthwhile magazine resume, and only hope that Bill will get it in every mailing, rather than only in two per year. I should mention that the item on page 11, credited to RHBarlow and myself, was actually written by H. P. Lovecraft. I gave it to Watson when I visited him last fall, and told him that Barlow should be thanked in print for furnishing the typescript in the first place. My name has no business being on it at all. -oOo- BROWSING (2 issues). Good for you, Mike, I like to see lots of this sort of thing. In connection with collection arranging, I should perhaps sketch my own method. In the first place, I see no need of hard-and-fast arrangement; with the exception that I keep fantastic and non-fantastic material in separate cases, and in both cases make a supreme attempt to keep everything by any one author not only together on the shelves but in as near chrological order of writing as possible. Otherwise, I let the shape of my shelves determine what goes where, and make no effort to alphabetize, segregate special editions, or anything like that. I do not put very tall books next to very short ones, however; if I have a wide range in size of books by the same author I try to dispose the tall ones on a high shelf immediately beneath the low ones on a lower shelf. And I find box files entirely adequate and satisfactory for fanzines. All periodicals, pro and fan, are kept in chronological order. -- 7 --
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Evans, apparently, fails to consider this escapist angle. I will freely grant that mankind would have no need for alcohol if all conditions were made so tolerable that there was nothing for him to escape from; however, I do not wish to see our anesthetic taken away from us until we are taken out of the torture chamber. I may perhaps be doing no more than to display my own lack of adjustment to life, but I personally have no desire to live without alcohol. I am a long way from being a dipsomaniac, but the fact remains that liquor softens the impact of life, and eases the tensions built up by the mere misery of having to live in so hideous and hateful a world. Whenever I find my own inner tensions building up to such a point I'm ready to explode, I go out on a good tear, and wake up the next morning relaxed, soothed, and ready to carry on somewhat more light-heartedly. While the liquor may injure me physically, it heals me psychically; in the long run, I feel that I benefit from it. Another advantage of alcohol is its beneficial effect in breaking down inhibitions. If Evans will reconstruct society in such a way as to remove most inhibitions from us, I will be quite happy to let him destroy the distilleries, and take my chances on dodging the other miseries by some other means. The other paragraph I disliked was the one about paying the piper. As long as "Al and Ollie and Fwqnkie" (HOW, by the way, does one pronounce "Fwqnkie"?) were willing to pay their own piping bills, I fail to see where anyone else had anything to complain about. Of course, if EEE had been stuck with performing these indulgers duties for them, he might have had something to yell about. The whole thing is just this; I feel EEE should be willing to let us all go to hell our own way, without recriminations or preaching. After all, EEE is not responsible for us, nor should he feel any obligation to help us climb out of any holes we may fall into. -oOo- GUTETO. The Madman of Mars was bad enough to suffer with in "English"--if we must now endure a translation into Esparanto....I submit that Morojo is certainly capable of giving us a fapazine of far more worthwhile content and general interest thatn GUTETO. Should stuff such as this be given credit as complying with mailing requirements? And don't forget to get your green and brown ribbons, kiddies! -oOo- SAPPHO. I am delighted to have this worthwhile magazine resume, and only hope that Bill will get it in every mailing, rather than only in two per year. I should mention that the item on page 11, credited to RHBarlow and myself, was actually written by H. P. Lovecraft. I gave it to Watson when I visited him last fall, and told him that Barlow should be thanked in print for furnishing the typescript in the first place. My name has no business being on it at all. -oOo- BROWSING (2 issues). Good for you, Mike, I like to see lots of this sort of thing. In connection with collection arranging, I should perhaps sketch my own method. In the first place, I see no need of hard-and-fast arrangement; with the exception that I keep fantastic and non-fantastic material in separate cases, and in both cases make a supreme attempt to keep everything by any one author not only together on the shelves but in as near chrological order of writing as possible. Otherwise, I let the shape of my shelves determine what goes where, and make no effort to alphabetize, segregate special editions, or anything like that. I do not put very tall books next to very short ones, however; if I have a wide range in size of books by the same author I try to dispose the tall ones on a high shelf immediately beneath the low ones on a lower shelf. And I find box files entirely adequate and satisfactory for fanzines. All periodicals, pro and fan, are kept in chronological order. -- 7 --
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