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Thing, whole no. 1, Spring 1946
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browsino The war will continue relentlessly. Attempts at a negotiated peace will be frustrated by Hitler's excessive demands. While France is hopelessly dominated, resentment against Hitler will increase in the United States as the arms program advances..... The Rome-Berlin axis will cease to exist even in name and Italy becomes the merest vassal... the British Isles will resist invasion and finally establish a completely successful blockade of continental Europe. WIth the aid of the United States, Great Britian will launch a naval attack from the Western Hemisphere on Europe, securing its first techold near Bordeaux, and advancing on Paris. Hitler will be defeated, and the peace terms will take the form of a sort of Union Now under American domination. Great Britian will no longer rule the waves nor hold the balance of power. The United States will take over both of those functions, and with them establish a long reign of peace on earth." "So what?" you ask. "I read the newspapers, too." Ah, but that was printed long before Pearl Harbor. In the October 1941 issue of UNKNOWN WORLDS, Anthony Boucher went out "On a Limb" with his interpretation of Nostrdamus. (Article arrived at UW office postmarked May 12, 1941.) The trouble with Nostradamus, though, is that --like Ethan Wharton's story-- one never knows till afterwards if the promise in the last sentence applies to our generation or 200 decades hence. For as H.I Phillips pertinented out: the atom bomb is here to say - but are WE? Gerry de la Ree's BEOWULF Poll is provoking for both give-and-take angles, but I want 10 choices for Short Stories. Short tales are the logical length for sustained terror or horror, and this classification can easily be enlarged to at least 10. Even a newcomer (me) has difficulty narrowing down her favorites. I chose "A Rose for Emily" - "Monkey's Paw" - "The Outsider" without dispute but gee whizz.... Faulkner's handling of "A Rose" is superb-- so casual, the last nine (and subtly unitalicized) words kicked one in the teeth. For an opposite reason, "Monkey's Paw" - like "The Tiger and the Lady" - has fascinated me since I was a kid....what would the THing on the Doorstep be like if it had entered? (With some Fan artist would send TUT his version.) "The Outsider" went in to have HPL represented - and I just didn't have time then to argue with myself which HPL choice Laney wouldn't attack. "Mrs. Answorth" is another hold-over from childhood. Rereading it now, I think it's too obvious, but from 'way back when I still don't like to see a face looking in from outside a ark window! Add Useless Fact 31-B-972: The idea of Mrs. Oliphant's story, A BELEAGUERED CITY is set in verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in "Voices of the Night" - also with a moral. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The spectral coup is fled....
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browsino The war will continue relentlessly. Attempts at a negotiated peace will be frustrated by Hitler's excessive demands. While France is hopelessly dominated, resentment against Hitler will increase in the United States as the arms program advances..... The Rome-Berlin axis will cease to exist even in name and Italy becomes the merest vassal... the British Isles will resist invasion and finally establish a completely successful blockade of continental Europe. WIth the aid of the United States, Great Britian will launch a naval attack from the Western Hemisphere on Europe, securing its first techold near Bordeaux, and advancing on Paris. Hitler will be defeated, and the peace terms will take the form of a sort of Union Now under American domination. Great Britian will no longer rule the waves nor hold the balance of power. The United States will take over both of those functions, and with them establish a long reign of peace on earth." "So what?" you ask. "I read the newspapers, too." Ah, but that was printed long before Pearl Harbor. In the October 1941 issue of UNKNOWN WORLDS, Anthony Boucher went out "On a Limb" with his interpretation of Nostrdamus. (Article arrived at UW office postmarked May 12, 1941.) The trouble with Nostradamus, though, is that --like Ethan Wharton's story-- one never knows till afterwards if the promise in the last sentence applies to our generation or 200 decades hence. For as H.I Phillips pertinented out: the atom bomb is here to say - but are WE? Gerry de la Ree's BEOWULF Poll is provoking for both give-and-take angles, but I want 10 choices for Short Stories. Short tales are the logical length for sustained terror or horror, and this classification can easily be enlarged to at least 10. Even a newcomer (me) has difficulty narrowing down her favorites. I chose "A Rose for Emily" - "Monkey's Paw" - "The Outsider" without dispute but gee whizz.... Faulkner's handling of "A Rose" is superb-- so casual, the last nine (and subtly unitalicized) words kicked one in the teeth. For an opposite reason, "Monkey's Paw" - like "The Tiger and the Lady" - has fascinated me since I was a kid....what would the THing on the Doorstep be like if it had entered? (With some Fan artist would send TUT his version.) "The Outsider" went in to have HPL represented - and I just didn't have time then to argue with myself which HPL choice Laney wouldn't attack. "Mrs. Answorth" is another hold-over from childhood. Rereading it now, I think it's too obvious, but from 'way back when I still don't like to see a face looking in from outside a ark window! Add Useless Fact 31-B-972: The idea of Mrs. Oliphant's story, A BELEAGUERED CITY is set in verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in "Voices of the Night" - also with a moral. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The spectral coup is fled....
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