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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 24, August 1942

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AVE ATQUE, TIGRINA! We regretfully report that tales of Tig necessarily will take place in pastense hence. Due to dyktawo she has left college, only place she coud be contacted in security; & I have reason to bliev she will not return to fandom. This nnouncement I think will release a certain compulsion from the tongue of one Squire Perdue, so that he may break a seal of silence without breaking any promises, & reveal certain very interesting info. We hope Perdue will favor Vom, which brot Tigrina to prominence, with the final scoop on her. Of her works, we have a few choice words left & 2 cartoons in the Witch Hazel series. 
PROTO-J: With Tigrina's star unavoidably on the wane, I call your attention to Barbara E Bovard--BEB. Bobby will need no introduction to Canadian fandom, an important adjunct of which she has been for some time via Light & Censored & her features therein such as "Unscientifacts" & "Useless from Uranus", articles, storys &c. BEB is fannish as they come & if her proposed siraid warden activitys don't take up too much time, & she doesnt join the army or navy. I'm confident BEB will be pressing into the top 20 brackets of actifans bfor long. Her fanografy next ish, her foto on our 5th Annish. " Speaking of the 5th Annish, twill feature our 3d fanograficover. On hand are snaps of Tom Daniel, CSYoud & Earle Barr Hanson. Wanted are: Tom Ludowitz, the New Harry Schmarje, Guy Gifford, Swishers, Louis & Larry Smith, Liebscher, Chauvenet, Speer, Farsaci, Cunningham...& who else would U like to see? Those of U named, please consider yourselves invited to send us a snap. it is to your advantage that it be a clear print with glossy finish. For reference to head-size we'd like, see Widner's on #23. A face that is just coverd by a nickel is a good size. " Widner the Winner. Last ish Art made a guess I didnt endorse on a piece of English idiom, namely "carrying a can of porridge between his shoulders". The Poll Cat ventured the opinion this woud be synonymous with American slangwidge "puddin'head". And Ron Holmes, Britisher, cinches Widner's supposition, riting "The can of porridge between the shoulders, is the head, and naturally intimates porridge instead of brains." " Homo. Speerior. Besides the conclu to his lengthy letter begun in #22 & crowded out of #23--& #24--a whale of another big letter was rcvd from Juffus in the interim. Most all of which we want to print. (Such letters are rich rewards to fan pubbers.) By golly, we'll have to start almost from the time we have 2 or 3 letters on hand & dummy--now, dammit, all the fanfusion in this room has got me flustered. My eye skipt a line. Back up: start again. By golly, we'll have to dummy 'em (Speer's letters) first nextime. Instead of being able to gather letters for a month, arrange in an interesting or effective order (to the disordered eds' minds, at any rate) & dummy all within a wk or 10 days, as in the old days; now days we have to start almost from the time we have 2 or 3 letters on hand & dummy bit by bit nite by nite & wk by wk. " (Praps it will explain some things to say that Bradbury is present as I try to work.)) " After the last Vom was done & the new not due for 2 mos, there already were a great many letters on hand & somehow Weaver was seized with a fever (hm, spontaneous! In the dummy it sez  "a spurt of enthusiasm or nrg or somethin'')--anyway, all anyone noes is that it suddenly was conceived that a suprprise Vom shoud be out about 3 wks after its predecessor. Well that we started early like we did, for subscribers will be receiving this ish a scant 2 wks in advance of schedule, as is. Morojo got a new job that upt her hrs-per-wk by 6 or more; one wk I hadda put in 66 hrs, slitely style-cramping for an actifan of my proclivitys. " A free sample Fantasy Fiction Field will be included with this mailing if Unger gets the batch to us in time. -- Now I spose we're to be conronted at the 11th hour with a BIG BLANK SPACE to fill. 4e speaking on stencil--asif U didna noe. Typing this even as the final pgs of Vom are running of the mimeo. I mean off. In the original dummy, left space planning on running entrys on a contest that never got announced. Dunno what hapnd, but I sent infor to FFF, after the appearance of the last Vom, in which the Table of Contents unhappily was crowded out (or, actually, never even created, altho there woudntve been room to run it anyway). So I got the idea of getting fandom in on it, & having top humorists Tucker, Widner, Liebscher et al create a composite TOC. And publish in this ish. But too late now. " We shoud have saved last issue's editorial title for this: RIGOROUS MORTIFICATION indeed! After all our space-saving devices, we now have space to spare! Woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe! 
Waldo! Other Space. "A thing can both be, not be, and be anything. There are many true ways of looking at the same thing. Some ways are good, some are bad." So please be charitable, kind peoples, & look at this the good way; make bliev this ish--& this pg in particular--isnt quite the mess it actually is. Dankon.

A QUATRAIN IS A
FOUR LINE RIME
THAT'S NEVER OUT OF PLACE.
IT MAY BE USED
AT ANY TIME
TO FILL AN EMPTY SPACE.
(Only ofcorse it shoudn't be lengthened into 6 lines & la Longfellow.)

Saving...

AVE ATQUE, TIGRINA! We regretfully report that tales of Tig necessarily will take place in pastense hence. Due to dyktawo she has left college, only place she coud be contacted in security; & I have reason to bliev she will not return to fandom. This nnouncement I think will release a certain compulsion from the tongue of one Squire Perdue, so that he may break a seal of silence without breaking any promises, & reveal certain very interesting info. We hope Perdue will favor Vom, which brot Tigrina to prominence, with the final scoop on her. Of her works, we have a few choice words left & 2 cartoons in the Witch Hazel series. PROTO-J: With Tigrina's star unavoidably on the wane, I call your attention to Barbara E Bovard--BEB. Bobby will need no introduction to Canadian fandom, an important adjunct of which she has been for some time via Light & Censored & her features therein such as "Unscientifacts" & "Useless from Uranus", articles, storys &c. BEB is fannish as they come & if her proposed siraid warden activitys don't take up too much time, & she doesnt join the army or navy. I'm confident BEB will be pressing into the top 20 brackets of actifans bfor long. Her fanografy next ish, her foto on our 5th Annish. " Speaking of the 5th Annish, twill feature our 3d fanograficover. On hand are snaps of Tom Daniel, CSYoud & Earle Barr Hanson. Wanted are: Tom Ludowitz, the New Harry Schmarje, Guy Gifford, Swishers, Louis & Larry Smith, Liebscher, Chauvenet, Speer, Farsaci, Cunningham...& who else would U like to see? Those of U named, please consider yourselves invited to send us a snap. it is to your advantage that it be a clear print with glossy finish. For reference to head-size we'd like, see Widner's on #23. A face that is just coverd by a nickel is a good size. " Widner the Winner. Last ish Art made a guess I didnt endorse on a piece of English idiom, namely "carrying a can of porridge between his shoulders". The Poll Cat ventured the opinion this woud be synonymous with American slangwidge "puddin'head". And Ron Holmes, Britisher, cinches Widner's supposition, riting "The can of porridge between the shoulders, is the head, and naturally intimates porridge instead of brains." " Homo. Speerior. Besides the conclu to his lengthy letter begun in #22 & crowded out of #23--& #24--a whale of another big letter was rcvd from Juffus in the interim. Most all of which we want to print. (Such letters are rich rewards to fan pubbers.) By golly, we'll have to start almost from the time we have 2 or 3 letters on hand & dummy--now, dammit, all the fanfusion in this room has got me flustered. My eye skipt a line. Back up: start again. By golly, we'll have to dummy 'em (Speer's letters) first nextime. Instead of being able to gather letters for a month, arrange in an interesting or effective order (to the disordered eds' minds, at any rate) & dummy all within a wk or 10 days, as in the old days; now days we have to start almost from the time we have 2 or 3 letters on hand & dummy bit by bit nite by nite & wk by wk. " (Praps it will explain some things to say that Bradbury is present as I try to work.)) " After the last Vom was done & the new not due for 2 mos, there already were a great many letters on hand & somehow Weaver was seized with a fever (hm, spontaneous! In the dummy it sez "a spurt of enthusiasm or nrg or somethin'')--anyway, all anyone noes is that it suddenly was conceived that a suprprise Vom shoud be out about 3 wks after its predecessor. Well that we started early like we did, for subscribers will be receiving this ish a scant 2 wks in advance of schedule, as is. Morojo got a new job that upt her hrs-per-wk by 6 or more; one wk I hadda put in 66 hrs, slitely style-cramping for an actifan of my proclivitys. " A free sample Fantasy Fiction Field will be included with this mailing if Unger gets the batch to us in time. -- Now I spose we're to be conronted at the 11th hour with a BIG BLANK SPACE to fill. 4e speaking on stencil--asif U didna noe. Typing this even as the final pgs of Vom are running of the mimeo. I mean off. In the original dummy, left space planning on running entrys on a contest that never got announced. Dunno what hapnd, but I sent infor to FFF, after the appearance of the last Vom, in which the Table of Contents unhappily was crowded out (or, actually, never even created, altho there woudntve been room to run it anyway). So I got the idea of getting fandom in on it, & having top humorists Tucker, Widner, Liebscher et al create a composite TOC. And publish in this ish. But too late now. " We shoud have saved last issue's editorial title for this: RIGOROUS MORTIFICATION indeed! After all our space-saving devices, we now have space to spare! Woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe! Waldo! Other Space. "A thing can both be, not be, and be anything. There are many true ways of looking at the same thing. Some ways are good, some are bad." So please be charitable, kind peoples, & look at this the good way; make bliev this ish--& this pg in particular--isnt quite the mess it actually is. Dankon. A QUATRAIN IS A FOUR LINE RIME THAT'S NEVER OUT OF PLACE. IT MAY BE USED AT ANY TIME TO FILL AN EMPTY SPACE. (Only ofcorse it shoudn't be lengthened into 6 lines & la Longfellow.)