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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 23, June 1942

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rest of BODACIOUS PUBLICATIONS are going to stay dummied, with ample margins, paragraphing, and all the rest that makes a neat fanzine. Nor do I like the hint of sarcasm in your use of the word 'artistic'. A subtle way of trying to plaster the stigma of affection or arty snobbishness upon such fans as might try to preserve a greatly needed criterion of neatness. Nor am I merely tooting my own horn. ECLIPSE, FANTASIA, PEGASUS, and several other fnz are typographically better than FANFARE at present, and they are the ones I wish to emulate, and surpass, if possible. Incidentally, FANFARE will be sent free to any fan in any of the allied armed services who is interested enuf to send me a postcard asking for it. ((Awryt, so we aint Nostra,damus! Fandom isn't sacrificing its artisticoncepts in the interest of making materials go farther, last long. However, as the Casting Director said to the moviextra of Persian extraction who was applying for a part in a picture, "We're not casting any aspersions." Any fan who says we consider neatness nexto snobbishness, or anything like that, lies like a rug. Fanliness should be nexto perfection -- Thus Spake Mirta Forsto.))

"Incidentally, did anyone notice the very marked resemblance between Harry Turner and Linus Hogenmiller? Coincidence????

"Before I go on to #22 - I'd like to insist that you use paragraphing in this letter if you print any of it. If not the nonstop type, then at least indentations at the beginning of each pragf.  I would also appreciate your not deleting anything, as (please do not take offense) you do not have the genius of Art Joquel in condensing material. You are apt to cut the good stuff and publish the boring parts. Witness the letters of Rothman and Croutch respectively. (Particularly Rotham's letter in #22.) ((Acky, the Human Termite: Always boring. Ant that a formicable joke?))

"Two or three days have elapsed between this and the preceding paragraph. In that time I received a chain letter from Paul Klingbiel, director of THE FRONTIER SOCIETY. Paul realized FS is dying on its feet and is appealing to the members for ideas to give it a shot in the arm, or put it out of its misery. In my section I wrote suggesting that FS be made the organization of fans who wish to help make a better world rather than read about one. Those of you who have expressed approval of my ideas, please support me by writing to Paul with a promise to join and back up FS if it takes the path I have suggested. Address: 518 Fullerton Pkwy, Chicago, Ill.

"It will be interesting to watch the career of Len Moffat in fandom. I was a Christian Scientist around the time I became interested in stf and fandom. After weighin everything for a couple of years, CS went overboard in favor of straight 'Science' and stf. CS has a good foundation, but like all other religions I know anything about, is 90% twaddle, but it's interesting twaddle, and shows a slight disposition to change when proven illogical. Religions usually do not. Therein lies their downfall. I only hope that when they fall, a real religion without dogma, The 'Holy' Bible, etc, but based on common sense and straight thinking, will take their place. Otherwise, times are gonna be tough. Religion has done a passable job of holding civilization together, but now the former is coming apart at the seams. I hope C is not so bound up with R, that C must follow the same course.

"Jon Millard does a workmanlike job of defining himself as a Reader.

"Hmmm - according to Mr. Conner, I must be mad. I find it much easier to 'comprehend' an infinite universe, without beginning and without end, than a finite one. The latter always raises the maddening questions of 'What went before?', 'What will come after?', 'What is beyond the edge of matter?' The answer can only be - 'nothing'. Absolute negation. You think of it; it gives me the green geesepimples - brrrrrr!

"It is possible for demons and spooks to exist, as types of energy, completely unknown to us yet. That is a subject to be 'pigeon-holed because of insufficient data.'

"There is something to be said for liquor. I drink very little. I will touch the stuff perhaps twice a year. Usually 4th of July and New Year's Eve I like to get blotto. Yet like Elarey, and others, I can have a fine time when sober. Why drink? Well, speaking for myself alone, I get some very strange, pleasurable sensations. There are flashes of mental clarity that take me soaring to beautiful heights. There are moments of physical well-being that match standing on a mountain-top at sunrise. There are times I feel that if I squinted a little harder, I could see the fourth dimension. Musical impressions are greatly intensified. Unlike many, I seldom experience any ill after-effects. Perhaps you wonder why I don't drink a lot more. It's simple. I merely wish to live a long time.

"As for smoking, I quit that over a year ago. To obtain the slight enjoyment it may afford, one has to make it a habit. It's not worth it. It's foolish, wasteful, and harmful.

"And that is all I have to say..."

LEN MOFFAT, the Christfan, of 419 Summit Ave., Ellwood City, Pa: "No, I won't judge VOM. I never have. I comment on VOM. I criticize it - but I don't JUDGE it.-or those found there-in. I try to keep my criticism on a constructive basis. By JUDGING, I meant - telling a person that he or she is doomed to Hades - tellin'em to go there, etc. 'Judge not others, that ye be not judged by God' SAVY? '' WHAT'S THIS? 'Nary a nude in the APRIL ish! Nay, not one! VOM is improving. I presume you couldn't find any clean nudes, and thus refrained from printing unclean ones. At least, I hope such is the case! '' Tigrina's cover was O.K.-but gag-line not as funny as her cartoon in the last ish. Her letter was interesting. She says she is 'interested in Devil worship & Black Magic purely

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rest of BODACIOUS PUBLICATIONS are going to stay dummied, with ample margins, paragraphing, and all the rest that makes a neat fanzine. Nor do I like the hint of sarcasm in your use of the word 'artistic'. A subtle way of trying to plaster the stigma of affection or arty snobbishness upon such fans as might try to preserve a greatly needed criterion of neatness. Nor am I merely tooting my own horn. ECLIPSE, FANTASIA, PEGASUS, and several other fnz are typographically better than FANFARE at present, and they are the ones I wish to emulate, and surpass, if possible. Incidentally, FANFARE will be sent free to any fan in any of the allied armed services who is interested enuf to send me a postcard asking for it. ((Awryt, so we aint Nostra,damus! Fandom isn't sacrificing its artisticoncepts in the interest of making materials go farther, last long. However, as the Casting Director said to the moviextra of Persian extraction who was applying for a part in a picture, "We're not casting any aspersions." Any fan who says we consider neatness nexto snobbishness, or anything like that, lies like a rug. Fanliness should be nexto perfection -- Thus Spake Mirta Forsto.)) "Incidentally, did anyone notice the very marked resemblance between Harry Turner and Linus Hogenmiller? Coincidence???? "Before I go on to #22 - I'd like to insist that you use paragraphing in this letter if you print any of it. If not the nonstop type, then at least indentations at the beginning of each pragf. I would also appreciate your not deleting anything, as (please do not take offense) you do not have the genius of Art Joquel in condensing material. You are apt to cut the good stuff and publish the boring parts. Witness the letters of Rothman and Croutch respectively. (Particularly Rotham's letter in #22.) ((Acky, the Human Termite: Always boring. Ant that a formicable joke?)) "Two or three days have elapsed between this and the preceding paragraph. In that time I received a chain letter from Paul Klingbiel, director of THE FRONTIER SOCIETY. Paul realized FS is dying on its feet and is appealing to the members for ideas to give it a shot in the arm, or put it out of its misery. In my section I wrote suggesting that FS be made the organization of fans who wish to help make a better world rather than read about one. Those of you who have expressed approval of my ideas, please support me by writing to Paul with a promise to join and back up FS if it takes the path I have suggested. Address: 518 Fullerton Pkwy, Chicago, Ill. "It will be interesting to watch the career of Len Moffat in fandom. I was a Christian Scientist around the time I became interested in stf and fandom. After weighin everything for a couple of years, CS went overboard in favor of straight 'Science' and stf. CS has a good foundation, but like all other religions I know anything about, is 90% twaddle, but it's interesting twaddle, and shows a slight disposition to change when proven illogical. Religions usually do not. Therein lies their downfall. I only hope that when they fall, a real religion without dogma, The 'Holy' Bible, etc, but based on common sense and straight thinking, will take their place. Otherwise, times are gonna be tough. Religion has done a passable job of holding civilization together, but now the former is coming apart at the seams. I hope C is not so bound up with R, that C must follow the same course. "Jon Millard does a workmanlike job of defining himself as a Reader. "Hmmm - according to Mr. Conner, I must be mad. I find it much easier to 'comprehend' an infinite universe, without beginning and without end, than a finite one. The latter always raises the maddening questions of 'What went before?', 'What will come after?', 'What is beyond the edge of matter?' The answer can only be - 'nothing'. Absolute negation. You think of it; it gives me the green geesepimples - brrrrrr! "It is possible for demons and spooks to exist, as types of energy, completely unknown to us yet. That is a subject to be 'pigeon-holed because of insufficient data.' "There is something to be said for liquor. I drink very little. I will touch the stuff perhaps twice a year. Usually 4th of July and New Year's Eve I like to get blotto. Yet like Elarey, and others, I can have a fine time when sober. Why drink? Well, speaking for myself alone, I get some very strange, pleasurable sensations. There are flashes of mental clarity that take me soaring to beautiful heights. There are moments of physical well-being that match standing on a mountain-top at sunrise. There are times I feel that if I squinted a little harder, I could see the fourth dimension. Musical impressions are greatly intensified. Unlike many, I seldom experience any ill after-effects. Perhaps you wonder why I don't drink a lot more. It's simple. I merely wish to live a long time. "As for smoking, I quit that over a year ago. To obtain the slight enjoyment it may afford, one has to make it a habit. It's not worth it. It's foolish, wasteful, and harmful. "And that is all I have to say..." LEN MOFFAT, the Christfan, of 419 Summit Ave., Ellwood City, Pa: "No, I won't judge VOM. I never have. I comment on VOM. I criticize it - but I don't JUDGE it.-or those found there-in. I try to keep my criticism on a constructive basis. By JUDGING, I meant - telling a person that he or she is doomed to Hades - tellin'em to go there, etc. 'Judge not others, that ye be not judged by God' SAVY? '' WHAT'S THIS? 'Nary a nude in the APRIL ish! Nay, not one! VOM is improving. I presume you couldn't find any clean nudes, and thus refrained from printing unclean ones. At least, I hope such is the case! '' Tigrina's cover was O.K.-but gag-line not as funny as her cartoon in the last ish. Her letter was interesting. She says she is 'interested in Devil worship & Black Magic purely