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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 30, March 1944
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IMAGI-NATION 7 Did he guess? Schmarje submitted it to me on a postal, and later when I addressed him as Berg he said how did I guess but please don't tell. Not that it matters now. What has become of Tackett: (In Ye Navee.) The way SiDean states the premise: "five fans can accomplish more by working singly on separate projects than the same five fans can working together on one project" can be "proved" easily. Naturally, if the fans devote all the time to the project instead of having to correspond back and forth in order to work on it, thus wasting time, it will mean a larger amount of actual work done. Of course, almost any project would be rendered more valuable by having the work and ideas of more than one fan behind it, but Sid didn't say that. And Brown is wrong in criticizing Speer. How could fandom get along without help from the outside, Mel? How would any group get along with help from the "outside"? Or did you make the stencils for FAN-SLANTS (swell mag, incidently; I'll write ya about it soon) yourself? To hell with Unity of Purpose for fandom. For real work to improve fandom in logical directions, "JACK SPEER" (unquote) has any three other fans beat for my money. Interesting to note that 4e, in his discussion of the censored word, actually gave it away to anyone reading closely enuf. I wonder if anyone read it closely enuf. I presume you did it on purpose, Censor? Tigrina Recapitulation appreciated. Cutting off the story at such an intriguing point, especially when it seemed at the time that removal of the cory cartoon would have made that unnecessary, was not appreciated -- but clever. In the supplement, I agree with neither Laney nor Gibson. My viewpoint is somewhere in between. Calling fans slans is moronic, but that doesn't say the fans aren't capable of making themseles extremely valuable to the world. I think the most important thing is that fans think as they do, that more fans are coming to think so, and that at least a few "ordinary people" are being influenced to think that way. The more influence on o. p. that we can make fandom have, the better. But while doing that job, we should be careful not to make fandom itself too painfully apparent to the o. p. There are plenty of reasons why they could not be blamed for taking us for a bunch of crackpots. I am following the Plans for Slans section with much more than casual itnerest. However, my misbeguided upbringing is probly the factor that'll be strongest in preventing me from marrying, and thus making use of any worthwhile ideas presented. If I am securely hitched up ten years from now, I'll join you in a hearty laff at my expense. But one thing is certain: I'll never marry a gal who doesn't at least have a good knowledge of what fandom is all about. The smoking controversy is dull. It doesn't seem to me that anybody with brains would give a damn whether other people smoke or not -- except maybe on crowded busses. Personly, I now derive some enjoyment from a pipe, and find I can no longer even stand cigarettes. But I don't smoke the pipe much except when alone because it probly looks silly for a kid who looks as young as I do to use a pipe -- if not silly, at least very affected. The expense item is not to be considered, because I still do and probably always will spend a heck of a lot more cash on candy bars, cokes, and especially chewing gum. (consider chewing gum. Lots of folks are "chain chewers." One stick coss more than one cigarette. It's quite tuff to get away with not giving away at least half of each pack of Wrigley's. And why is chewing not as great a vice as smoking?) [Drawing: Cigarette labeled "OLD CAMEL," top view of nude woman stretching stick of "SPEER-MINT" gum around arms and legs; nude woman smoking cigarette.] K 'VoM #27 is in many ways one of the best you've ever put out -- well worth the wait. I liked the cover even if nobody else did. Don't see why you changed the name of your publishing house, but since you can't explain Snafu (Situation Normal -- All Fouled Up.) I'll undoubtedly continue to wonder. The insert is not up to the Wright standard, and was "Face in the Abyss" a misprint? (Don't understand question.) JiKe wastes no words in presenting his very swell ideas. I think that if Moffatt advises others to look around for a religion that suits them better, he cannot be too biased himself. Under the circumstances, I don't see how he can be as "religious" in the ordinary sense as has been made out. His being "Christian" is quite another matter. I read and digest LRC's letter and your reply, and then took an oath on my collection of VoM's that I will never resign from fandom, not even in fun. Not that the oath makes any difference. I don't believe I could resign. In that, as in many other things, I seem to find a kindred soul in Forrie. Probly we are exceeding far from being kindred souls, but it gives me pleasure to think so. Defense Plant is clever but not worth the space it takes. I honestly cannot understand Sinn. Perhaps I don't have the proper perspective for trying to discover what could possibly make my letter the only interesting one, but if anyone else came anywhere near agreeing with him I'd certainly like to know the reason. "14 year old jerks" and "no one prominent" are so stupid as to be meaningless.
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IMAGI-NATION 7 Did he guess? Schmarje submitted it to me on a postal, and later when I addressed him as Berg he said how did I guess but please don't tell. Not that it matters now. What has become of Tackett: (In Ye Navee.) The way SiDean states the premise: "five fans can accomplish more by working singly on separate projects than the same five fans can working together on one project" can be "proved" easily. Naturally, if the fans devote all the time to the project instead of having to correspond back and forth in order to work on it, thus wasting time, it will mean a larger amount of actual work done. Of course, almost any project would be rendered more valuable by having the work and ideas of more than one fan behind it, but Sid didn't say that. And Brown is wrong in criticizing Speer. How could fandom get along without help from the outside, Mel? How would any group get along with help from the "outside"? Or did you make the stencils for FAN-SLANTS (swell mag, incidently; I'll write ya about it soon) yourself? To hell with Unity of Purpose for fandom. For real work to improve fandom in logical directions, "JACK SPEER" (unquote) has any three other fans beat for my money. Interesting to note that 4e, in his discussion of the censored word, actually gave it away to anyone reading closely enuf. I wonder if anyone read it closely enuf. I presume you did it on purpose, Censor? Tigrina Recapitulation appreciated. Cutting off the story at such an intriguing point, especially when it seemed at the time that removal of the cory cartoon would have made that unnecessary, was not appreciated -- but clever. In the supplement, I agree with neither Laney nor Gibson. My viewpoint is somewhere in between. Calling fans slans is moronic, but that doesn't say the fans aren't capable of making themseles extremely valuable to the world. I think the most important thing is that fans think as they do, that more fans are coming to think so, and that at least a few "ordinary people" are being influenced to think that way. The more influence on o. p. that we can make fandom have, the better. But while doing that job, we should be careful not to make fandom itself too painfully apparent to the o. p. There are plenty of reasons why they could not be blamed for taking us for a bunch of crackpots. I am following the Plans for Slans section with much more than casual itnerest. However, my misbeguided upbringing is probly the factor that'll be strongest in preventing me from marrying, and thus making use of any worthwhile ideas presented. If I am securely hitched up ten years from now, I'll join you in a hearty laff at my expense. But one thing is certain: I'll never marry a gal who doesn't at least have a good knowledge of what fandom is all about. The smoking controversy is dull. It doesn't seem to me that anybody with brains would give a damn whether other people smoke or not -- except maybe on crowded busses. Personly, I now derive some enjoyment from a pipe, and find I can no longer even stand cigarettes. But I don't smoke the pipe much except when alone because it probly looks silly for a kid who looks as young as I do to use a pipe -- if not silly, at least very affected. The expense item is not to be considered, because I still do and probably always will spend a heck of a lot more cash on candy bars, cokes, and especially chewing gum. (consider chewing gum. Lots of folks are "chain chewers." One stick coss more than one cigarette. It's quite tuff to get away with not giving away at least half of each pack of Wrigley's. And why is chewing not as great a vice as smoking?) [Drawing: Cigarette labeled "OLD CAMEL," top view of nude woman stretching stick of "SPEER-MINT" gum around arms and legs; nude woman smoking cigarette.] K 'VoM #27 is in many ways one of the best you've ever put out -- well worth the wait. I liked the cover even if nobody else did. Don't see why you changed the name of your publishing house, but since you can't explain Snafu (Situation Normal -- All Fouled Up.) I'll undoubtedly continue to wonder. The insert is not up to the Wright standard, and was "Face in the Abyss" a misprint? (Don't understand question.) JiKe wastes no words in presenting his very swell ideas. I think that if Moffatt advises others to look around for a religion that suits them better, he cannot be too biased himself. Under the circumstances, I don't see how he can be as "religious" in the ordinary sense as has been made out. His being "Christian" is quite another matter. I read and digest LRC's letter and your reply, and then took an oath on my collection of VoM's that I will never resign from fandom, not even in fun. Not that the oath makes any difference. I don't believe I could resign. In that, as in many other things, I seem to find a kindred soul in Forrie. Probly we are exceeding far from being kindred souls, but it gives me pleasure to think so. Defense Plant is clever but not worth the space it takes. I honestly cannot understand Sinn. Perhaps I don't have the proper perspective for trying to discover what could possibly make my letter the only interesting one, but if anyone else came anywhere near agreeing with him I'd certainly like to know the reason. "14 year old jerks" and "no one prominent" are so stupid as to be meaningless.
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