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[stylyized] FAN Mail [underlined] LES CROUTCH: You're new to me in so many ways ... (Why, Les dear...!) ...I admire your lofty ambitions about making TUT quarterly, 24 pages, high-class material and all the rest. You'll find it a thankless business;* you'll find it full of critical people all telling you how to runyour brain child;** and you'll find that according to the letters you receive you aren't pleasing any of them.*** *Yeah, I know. And don't we love it! **Gosh, I hope so. Already I've played the clinging vine. First I consulted frantically with LANGLEY SEARLES and SAM MOSCOWITZ on the paper situation in NYC. TILL and BILL HAYWOOD solved that problem by delivery 20 reams of Topsham to 2214. T/Bill also ran off "proserpina" as demonstration of a Speed-OPrint. (The Gruesome Twosome are not the TUT editors, incidentally - they're taken from gargoyles on the Cathedral of Notre Dame..my architectural background.) And LEE HAWES gave me a #30 mimeo, but I've since bought an S-O-P. ***As long as we receive letters...! [Underlined] GERRY DE LA REE: Do you think there is such a thing as Fantasy music? I do myself, but have been unable to persuade a number of fen on that point. I have abut 20 albums of records, and consider most of them fantastic music. Not that the composer necessarily intended them as such, for I think it is the individual who makes the music what it is. I emphatically agree. In Weird fantasy, for instance, music can produce more spine chills, more atmosphere, than pages of words. I hope you will eventually publish a completed compilation of titles and records for ready reference, and include your opinions as in [underlined] Sun Spots, Spring '45, to further discussion. Next TUT will review two little-known weird shorts which have music as their theme: "Siesta" by Alexander L. Kielland, and "Maese Perez, the Organist" by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. [Underlined] GEORGE R. FOX: I've been planning a New Jersey fan club..to estblisha group of Jersey and New York fans for the purpose of holding monthly or semi-monthly gab fests. Possibly a few group publishing efforts might be included from time to time..So far I've snared you, Mocowitz, Lloyd Alpaugh, Joe Kennedy, John Cooper and Ben Indick.. I'm all for it. There are enough Fen in the NY-NJ vicinity to build up our own Metropolitan LASFS, if we'd only get together. Gab-fests are the best fun in the hobby! Weehawken is only 10 minutes from Broadway so if there's a NYC or near NJ meet, write me or phone UNion 5-5666 after 6. Meanwhile, all active Fen are welcome to the meets of the New Jersey Chapter of Amateur Journalism. Sometimes riotous. Card the secy, Miss Jeanne L. Sullivan, Box 246, Caldwell, NJ. More details next TUT. [blocked, stylized] 12 [signature?] Helen
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[stylyized] FAN Mail [underlined] LES CROUTCH: You're new to me in so many ways ... (Why, Les dear...!) ...I admire your lofty ambitions about making TUT quarterly, 24 pages, high-class material and all the rest. You'll find it a thankless business;* you'll find it full of critical people all telling you how to runyour brain child;** and you'll find that according to the letters you receive you aren't pleasing any of them.*** *Yeah, I know. And don't we love it! **Gosh, I hope so. Already I've played the clinging vine. First I consulted frantically with LANGLEY SEARLES and SAM MOSCOWITZ on the paper situation in NYC. TILL and BILL HAYWOOD solved that problem by delivery 20 reams of Topsham to 2214. T/Bill also ran off "proserpina" as demonstration of a Speed-OPrint. (The Gruesome Twosome are not the TUT editors, incidentally - they're taken from gargoyles on the Cathedral of Notre Dame..my architectural background.) And LEE HAWES gave me a #30 mimeo, but I've since bought an S-O-P. ***As long as we receive letters...! [Underlined] GERRY DE LA REE: Do you think there is such a thing as Fantasy music? I do myself, but have been unable to persuade a number of fen on that point. I have abut 20 albums of records, and consider most of them fantastic music. Not that the composer necessarily intended them as such, for I think it is the individual who makes the music what it is. I emphatically agree. In Weird fantasy, for instance, music can produce more spine chills, more atmosphere, than pages of words. I hope you will eventually publish a completed compilation of titles and records for ready reference, and include your opinions as in [underlined] Sun Spots, Spring '45, to further discussion. Next TUT will review two little-known weird shorts which have music as their theme: "Siesta" by Alexander L. Kielland, and "Maese Perez, the Organist" by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. [Underlined] GEORGE R. FOX: I've been planning a New Jersey fan club..to estblisha group of Jersey and New York fans for the purpose of holding monthly or semi-monthly gab fests. Possibly a few group publishing efforts might be included from time to time..So far I've snared you, Mocowitz, Lloyd Alpaugh, Joe Kennedy, John Cooper and Ben Indick.. I'm all for it. There are enough Fen in the NY-NJ vicinity to build up our own Metropolitan LASFS, if we'd only get together. Gab-fests are the best fun in the hobby! Weehawken is only 10 minutes from Broadway so if there's a NYC or near NJ meet, write me or phone UNion 5-5666 after 6. Meanwhile, all active Fen are welcome to the meets of the New Jersey Chapter of Amateur Journalism. Sometimes riotous. Card the secy, Miss Jeanne L. Sullivan, Box 246, Caldwell, NJ. More details next TUT. [blocked, stylized] 12 [signature?] Helen
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