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Pogorus, v. 1, issue 1, 1942
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of fiction. Instead of fan clubs, you will have Kiwanis[[?]], Lions Clubs, Rotary, Elks, Eagles, and such prosaic but fascinating things as poker parties, stags, smokers, and burleyoues[[?]]. You will have wives and kids, and bills, bills, bills. Never a dull moment. You will have more real appreciation for steel engravings of Washington, Jefferson, Grant, and Lincoln, on the green stuff that pays for groceries, than for the finest stenciled nude on the best fan-mag ever put out. You will realize how ghastly a [[?]] looks in comparison to the real article in flesh and blood. Is fandom doomed? YOU tell me -- 18 years from now! ITSUSORTHEMITSUSORTHEMITSUSORTHEMITSUSORTH Sometimes we are amused at the names that stf authors give their characters. They strive so hard to give unusual names to the hero, et al., that the effect is ludicrous in the extreme. In fact, you can usually weed out the stories in a mag that aren't worth the reading just by skimming through and noting the names. Good writers use ordinary names, or names that are built up on some philological system, be it only a pipe dream world in his own head. Tars Tarkas, Lorquas Ptomal[[?]], and Dotar Sojat sound as authentic as Lara Larsen, Loren Thomas, and Don Connors, because the reader has no mind-block against them. Even such a name as Xqsyrtbsflxep can strain through your mind-block, if it is translated as Squirt Buffalo, or something that is built on a sound philological basis. KIDNAPPEDHEHISSEDKIDNAPPEDHEHISSEDKIDNAPPE
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of fiction. Instead of fan clubs, you will have Kiwanis[[?]], Lions Clubs, Rotary, Elks, Eagles, and such prosaic but fascinating things as poker parties, stags, smokers, and burleyoues[[?]]. You will have wives and kids, and bills, bills, bills. Never a dull moment. You will have more real appreciation for steel engravings of Washington, Jefferson, Grant, and Lincoln, on the green stuff that pays for groceries, than for the finest stenciled nude on the best fan-mag ever put out. You will realize how ghastly a [[?]] looks in comparison to the real article in flesh and blood. Is fandom doomed? YOU tell me -- 18 years from now! ITSUSORTHEMITSUSORTHEMITSUSORTHEMITSUSORTH Sometimes we are amused at the names that stf authors give their characters. They strive so hard to give unusual names to the hero, et al., that the effect is ludicrous in the extreme. In fact, you can usually weed out the stories in a mag that aren't worth the reading just by skimming through and noting the names. Good writers use ordinary names, or names that are built up on some philological system, be it only a pipe dream world in his own head. Tars Tarkas, Lorquas Ptomal[[?]], and Dotar Sojat sound as authentic as Lara Larsen, Loren Thomas, and Don Connors, because the reader has no mind-block against them. Even such a name as Xqsyrtbsflxep can strain through your mind-block, if it is translated as Squirt Buffalo, or something that is built on a sound philological basis. KIDNAPPEDHEHISSEDKIDNAPPEDHEHISSEDKIDNAPPE
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