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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 19, November 1941

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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 15
[Signature of Leslie A. Claudal]
[Darwning of a naked posing woman] who is pre-nudes & anti-prudes is the subject of our 2d new feature, MEET THE RITER!, revealing, as he does, a great deal about himself in the following composium of 2 or 3 of his letters, which come to ise from ex 121, Parry Sound, Ontario. Croutch has a campaign on to omit Canada from the adres, claiming no postman worthy of the name shoud require this added direction. "Lac", as he sometimes Lacontcly signs himselfm probly is the most well--noen Canuck-fan at the presentime, Has publisht over 100 issues of a fantasy -exchange sheet, LIGHT, which will reach a responsible size with its Xmas issues, "I've never been actively interested in fandom as most of you fellows and girls are. Oh yes, I did write letters to the magazines. I did write an odd bit for one of the fanzines. But when it came to joining a club, or starting an actual publication of my own, or doing anything else that it seems necessary to do to be known as a fan. I just wasn't interested. I'll admit I do correspond voraviously with many of the better known fellows: Warner, Widner, Meader, etc. I do write the odd fan article or story. But anything deeper seemed to me to be too stifling. To explain, I love fantasy, I love all it stands for, but I'm one of those souls who like it to flit from one thing to another, who hates to be tied down by affiliation to a strictly subscription fanzine or membership in any organization. I love tp sit on the sidelines, to kibitz, to lone wolf it. I want to have fun at all parties, to go my merry way and tweak everyone's nose as much as I wish. In other words, I'm one of those strange peices on sees everyday, they come and go, popping up in the damndest places, always managing to know what is going on, having fun, yet never tied down, able to change on'e mind whenever one wishes, being dynamic and never static. '' Another things, it is only of late that I have begun to take a more active interest in fandom. It is only since the band went on that I began to wish to read the fanzines more thoroughly, and then what did I find? That I cannot send money out of the country so as to be able to subscribe. There have been some I have seen through the benefits of my swap system. I did read an issue of VOM or MADGE, the latter which I always liked the best, being one of these strange creatures God creates every now and then the most violent opposite of a misogynist one can conceive. I can love anything with a trim shape, a slim ankle and a pretty face and somewhere near my age! Anyone, especially unconventional and very broad-minded hello, interest in swapping and wishing to drop me a line, there's still plenty of room here on the old roster for another apple or Shuffle or two. Anyway, I did read MADGE once and liked it. But then I wasn't as affluent as I am now. Training oneself for a career in radio doesn't leave one much money for other things, you know. And I learned it the hard way - by myself, and by experiment, and old Mother Experience is a strict school marm. '' Nobody is really distasteful to me unless it is Hitler and things he stands for. I even feel sorry for him at times. I don't think anything in Ackerman's makeup would be dissed to me because I am such a conglomeration myself. I like Ackermanese because at times I indulge in what I look upon as inane spelling, I have murdered the King's English (How do U like my term for ortho-language: Kinglish. --Morojo) and spelling so many times I feel like a murderer. Esperanto is different as I must admit that something inside of me  never did get het up over it. Maybe because I don't understand. Maybe because I lack vision. But somehow it doesn't click with me. I would sooner tie fast to basic English. Some of the boys are hollering about a good drag down knock out fight on Esperanto. Now, I like a fight better than most guys. For a peacable sort of soul I'm amazingly combative on certain occasions. But this time it leaves me cold. I don't see any sense in Esperanto, myself, I believe Basic English holds a more logical solution. But why should I force my likes and dislikes on those that think otherwise> That's what's the trouble with this dizzy world of ours- too many men trying to fource other men to think, live, love, drink and go their ways. Look what Europe is like just through such damned intolerance, it's degraded into the most unlovely pack of human imbeciles as the world has ever seen! All frightening over things that are so down unreasonable and cockeyed that the apes themselves don't believe in them! Like kids hollering over a piece of sugar candy while those steak is burning up on the stove! (The next 2 issues of my Fapamflet Guteto gives the "Esperanto vs Basic English" arguments. I'll be glad to send complimentary copys to any interested partys. --Morojo) -- After having read VOM #s 16 and 17 through at a brain-breaking pace, I settled back in a rather chaotic mood. It has been but recently I became rather actively interested in fandoings.

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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 15 [Signature of Leslie A. Claudal] [Darwning of a naked posing woman] who is pre-nudes & anti-prudes is the subject of our 2d new feature, MEET THE RITER!, revealing, as he does, a great deal about himself in the following composium of 2 or 3 of his letters, which come to ise from ex 121, Parry Sound, Ontario. Croutch has a campaign on to omit Canada from the adres, claiming no postman worthy of the name shoud require this added direction. "Lac", as he sometimes Lacontcly signs himselfm probly is the most well--noen Canuck-fan at the presentime, Has publisht over 100 issues of a fantasy -exchange sheet, LIGHT, which will reach a responsible size with its Xmas issues, "I've never been actively interested in fandom as most of you fellows and girls are. Oh yes, I did write letters to the magazines. I did write an odd bit for one of the fanzines. But when it came to joining a club, or starting an actual publication of my own, or doing anything else that it seems necessary to do to be known as a fan. I just wasn't interested. I'll admit I do correspond voraviously with many of the better known fellows: Warner, Widner, Meader, etc. I do write the odd fan article or story. But anything deeper seemed to me to be too stifling. To explain, I love fantasy, I love all it stands for, but I'm one of those souls who like it to flit from one thing to another, who hates to be tied down by affiliation to a strictly subscription fanzine or membership in any organization. I love tp sit on the sidelines, to kibitz, to lone wolf it. I want to have fun at all parties, to go my merry way and tweak everyone's nose as much as I wish. In other words, I'm one of those strange peices on sees everyday, they come and go, popping up in the damndest places, always managing to know what is going on, having fun, yet never tied down, able to change on'e mind whenever one wishes, being dynamic and never static. '' Another things, it is only of late that I have begun to take a more active interest in fandom. It is only since the band went on that I began to wish to read the fanzines more thoroughly, and then what did I find? That I cannot send money out of the country so as to be able to subscribe. There have been some I have seen through the benefits of my swap system. I did read an issue of VOM or MADGE, the latter which I always liked the best, being one of these strange creatures God creates every now and then the most violent opposite of a misogynist one can conceive. I can love anything with a trim shape, a slim ankle and a pretty face and somewhere near my age! Anyone, especially unconventional and very broad-minded hello, interest in swapping and wishing to drop me a line, there's still plenty of room here on the old roster for another apple or Shuffle or two. Anyway, I did read MADGE once and liked it. But then I wasn't as affluent as I am now. Training oneself for a career in radio doesn't leave one much money for other things, you know. And I learned it the hard way - by myself, and by experiment, and old Mother Experience is a strict school marm. '' Nobody is really distasteful to me unless it is Hitler and things he stands for. I even feel sorry for him at times. I don't think anything in Ackerman's makeup would be dissed to me because I am such a conglomeration myself. I like Ackermanese because at times I indulge in what I look upon as inane spelling, I have murdered the King's English (How do U like my term for ortho-language: Kinglish. --Morojo) and spelling so many times I feel like a murderer. Esperanto is different as I must admit that something inside of me never did get het up over it. Maybe because I don't understand. Maybe because I lack vision. But somehow it doesn't click with me. I would sooner tie fast to basic English. Some of the boys are hollering about a good drag down knock out fight on Esperanto. Now, I like a fight better than most guys. For a peacable sort of soul I'm amazingly combative on certain occasions. But this time it leaves me cold. I don't see any sense in Esperanto, myself, I believe Basic English holds a more logical solution. But why should I force my likes and dislikes on those that think otherwise> That's what's the trouble with this dizzy world of ours- too many men trying to fource other men to think, live, love, drink and go their ways. Look what Europe is like just through such damned intolerance, it's degraded into the most unlovely pack of human imbeciles as the world has ever seen! All frightening over things that are so down unreasonable and cockeyed that the apes themselves don't believe in them! Like kids hollering over a piece of sugar candy while those steak is burning up on the stove! (The next 2 issues of my Fapamflet Guteto gives the "Esperanto vs Basic English" arguments. I'll be glad to send complimentary copys to any interested partys. --Morojo) -- After having read VOM #s 16 and 17 through at a brain-breaking pace, I settled back in a rather chaotic mood. It has been but recently I became rather actively interested in fandoings.