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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 19, November 1941
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4 YRS BFOR THE MAST Voice of the Imagi-nation first apeard in IMAGINATION: in '37 Nov. We date from that, in celebrating our 4th Anniversary., -- Everything we said about the 3/4 size Vom was so. We were able to get as much on 3 stencils as previously on 4, but it made dummying a lil difficul; % then we had 1000s of sheets to halve after mimeoing. Even with the bugs, economicly it was better than the "standard" size-- standard in quotes because the trend seems to be bigger mags. But this size is the best yet for simplicity of stenciling, full utilization of stencil (gain 1 in 10 more than even the 3-4 way), paper saving, etc. So, tho Cyril Kornbluth will be disapointed (rote the CyK: "Just received the new VOM. It's terrific! The new half-size is gorgeous! Suggest you put the next issue quarter size. And so on...") Sgt Konealy will be pleased ("I'm just a little guy, but I like my magazines big.") & we hope all of U--which was most of U--who took so kindly to the small size--will adapt as readily to the learge. Hellfortier, who advocates boycot-ting the "popular but worthless VoM", asks why we don't include some serious letters, "print more letters in tehir entirety, deleting any opistles which are unin-teresting." While Rothman says "good idea, cutting letters." U see, neither agree. Twas ever thus. But when 40yr wants to noe what-for we don't print serious stuff, we don't get it. In the last ish we'd say the contribs of Roberts, Webster, Jeffryes, Cunningham & Skinner were sufficiently serious. Maybe it's a matter of definition, "serious" being more deeply serious to 2J than us. At any rate, we certainly don't suppress any letters, as Joe implys when he states "You don't print serious letters as a rule, and I had to write those asinine things to keep in the mag,. Maybe I am the wrong one, or maybe it's that there are more drips than dopes in fandom. Natcherly you have the drips. I'm a dope." We're inclined to agree with your self-analysis, Yozef, 'cause U definitely don't need to rite "asinine things to keep in the mag." Sure, we spose we coud improve certain letters by judicious editing; but we'd hate to do that. We feel if a fellow wants to be silly befor fandom, or visious, or vulgar or just plain stupid--weoll, that's his perogative & we're rendering fandom a valuable service in letting it see what this guy is like uncersord. This pub is more than a voice, it is a mirror, reflecting the mass mind of fandom; & it is questionable to us whether we, ye
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4 YRS BFOR THE MAST Voice of the Imagi-nation first apeard in IMAGINATION: in '37 Nov. We date from that, in celebrating our 4th Anniversary., -- Everything we said about the 3/4 size Vom was so. We were able to get as much on 3 stencils as previously on 4, but it made dummying a lil difficul; % then we had 1000s of sheets to halve after mimeoing. Even with the bugs, economicly it was better than the "standard" size-- standard in quotes because the trend seems to be bigger mags. But this size is the best yet for simplicity of stenciling, full utilization of stencil (gain 1 in 10 more than even the 3-4 way), paper saving, etc. So, tho Cyril Kornbluth will be disapointed (rote the CyK: "Just received the new VOM. It's terrific! The new half-size is gorgeous! Suggest you put the next issue quarter size. And so on...") Sgt Konealy will be pleased ("I'm just a little guy, but I like my magazines big.") & we hope all of U--which was most of U--who took so kindly to the small size--will adapt as readily to the learge. Hellfortier, who advocates boycot-ting the "popular but worthless VoM", asks why we don't include some serious letters, "print more letters in tehir entirety, deleting any opistles which are unin-teresting." While Rothman says "good idea, cutting letters." U see, neither agree. Twas ever thus. But when 40yr wants to noe what-for we don't print serious stuff, we don't get it. In the last ish we'd say the contribs of Roberts, Webster, Jeffryes, Cunningham & Skinner were sufficiently serious. Maybe it's a matter of definition, "serious" being more deeply serious to 2J than us. At any rate, we certainly don't suppress any letters, as Joe implys when he states "You don't print serious letters as a rule, and I had to write those asinine things to keep in the mag,. Maybe I am the wrong one, or maybe it's that there are more drips than dopes in fandom. Natcherly you have the drips. I'm a dope." We're inclined to agree with your self-analysis, Yozef, 'cause U definitely don't need to rite "asinine things to keep in the mag." Sure, we spose we coud improve certain letters by judicious editing; but we'd hate to do that. We feel if a fellow wants to be silly befor fandom, or visious, or vulgar or just plain stupid--weoll, that's his perogative & we're rendering fandom a valuable service in letting it see what this guy is like uncersord. This pub is more than a voice, it is a mirror, reflecting the mass mind of fandom; & it is questionable to us whether we, ye
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