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Fantasy Fan, v. 1, issue 9, May 1934
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May, 1934, THE FANTASY FAN 143 INHERITED MEMORY (A True Experience) by Kenneth B. Pritchard Unexplored cells of the brain are the links to the past. So have written some of the authors of the day in their science fiction. How far from the truth, or how near, are they? Bear with me and you shall see, although you may not believe what I am about to tell you. It occurred during my first trip to the Adirondack mountains in New York State. I was with my parents going to visit relatives there. I was about six or seven years of age. My mother had not been up there for a number of years; indeed, it was years before I was born that she had gone there. Never, in the intervening years, had a trip been made, and I had no conception whatever of how the place looked. We finally arrived at our destination. Imagine, if you can, my surprise when I saw the house to which we were going. I said to my mother in some disappointment, "We've been here before!" It came as a distinct shock when she replied; "No you haven't been here before. This is the first time we have ever brought you up this far." I had recognized the house, the big tree next to it, the porch, and much of the interior. I had never seen the place in my life, yet it was entirely natural to my senses that I knew it! Does this not make it appear that the sight of the past is inherited from one generation to the next--perhaps, even into the future, so that what seems to ABOUT H. G. WELLS by Daniel McPhail A short while ago, H. G. Wells had a dream of the future which inspired the writing of his new semi-fantasy book, "The Shape of Things to Come." It is an outline of the next century and a half, forecasting a World State eventually after destructive wars. Published by Macmillan. Wells writes in an almost invisible small hand. A slightly demented person has been suing him fro a decade, charging that that he stole his "Outline of History" from an unpublished manuscript of his. Wells has had all the bills to pay, to say nothing of the annoyance. Wells and Arthur Machen were both asked to contribute to an abortive magazine published in the '90s, and in one of the few issues appeared Wells' "The Cone"--Machen's didn't get in because the magazine expired. Wells' "The Time Machine," and Machen's effective horror story, "The Three Imposters" were both quite in the limelight at the time. The short lived magazines was somewhat of a forerunnrr of the modern weird magazines. Machen was the subject of many amusing attacks, more fully reported in his autobiographical "Far Off Things" and "Things Near and Far," and even being accused of being deliberately unpleasant by some (continued on page 144) be coincidental in vision is merely the breaking into the thread of the unknown tapestry of life? Who has the answer?
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May, 1934, THE FANTASY FAN 143 INHERITED MEMORY (A True Experience) by Kenneth B. Pritchard Unexplored cells of the brain are the links to the past. So have written some of the authors of the day in their science fiction. How far from the truth, or how near, are they? Bear with me and you shall see, although you may not believe what I am about to tell you. It occurred during my first trip to the Adirondack mountains in New York State. I was with my parents going to visit relatives there. I was about six or seven years of age. My mother had not been up there for a number of years; indeed, it was years before I was born that she had gone there. Never, in the intervening years, had a trip been made, and I had no conception whatever of how the place looked. We finally arrived at our destination. Imagine, if you can, my surprise when I saw the house to which we were going. I said to my mother in some disappointment, "We've been here before!" It came as a distinct shock when she replied; "No you haven't been here before. This is the first time we have ever brought you up this far." I had recognized the house, the big tree next to it, the porch, and much of the interior. I had never seen the place in my life, yet it was entirely natural to my senses that I knew it! Does this not make it appear that the sight of the past is inherited from one generation to the next--perhaps, even into the future, so that what seems to ABOUT H. G. WELLS by Daniel McPhail A short while ago, H. G. Wells had a dream of the future which inspired the writing of his new semi-fantasy book, "The Shape of Things to Come." It is an outline of the next century and a half, forecasting a World State eventually after destructive wars. Published by Macmillan. Wells writes in an almost invisible small hand. A slightly demented person has been suing him fro a decade, charging that that he stole his "Outline of History" from an unpublished manuscript of his. Wells has had all the bills to pay, to say nothing of the annoyance. Wells and Arthur Machen were both asked to contribute to an abortive magazine published in the '90s, and in one of the few issues appeared Wells' "The Cone"--Machen's didn't get in because the magazine expired. Wells' "The Time Machine," and Machen's effective horror story, "The Three Imposters" were both quite in the limelight at the time. The short lived magazines was somewhat of a forerunnrr of the modern weird magazines. Machen was the subject of many amusing attacks, more fully reported in his autobiographical "Far Off Things" and "Things Near and Far," and even being accused of being deliberately unpleasant by some (continued on page 144) be coincidental in vision is merely the breaking into the thread of the unknown tapestry of life? Who has the answer?
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