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Fanfare, v. 2, issue 2, whole no.8, February 1942
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DETOURS LOUIS RUSSELL CHAUVENET As we do not know anything in particular about running a fan column, it is our amiable intention to wander along in much the same style as that of the deceased fanzine from which the columnar title has been lifted. For those who have not met us before, we may remark that this usually consists of discussions in an airy, light manner about whatever chances to interest us at the moment. * * * * * Says Prof. H. H. Newman in "The Phylum Chordata," "Let the modern birds consider the sparrow and his ways. He is plain and homely, eats anything, lives anywhere, builds his nests in strange and unfamiliar places, using new and untried materials. He can whip anything his own size in feathers, but does not needlessly pick a quarrel, and he can put up with either cold or heat, drought or flood; they all look alike to him. Doubtless in the distant future he will probably dispute for the supremacy of the earth with the mouse, the ant, and super-man." This observation by an eminent zoologist reminds us of a somewhat similar remark of J.B.S. Haldane's, who once expressed a hope that if man succeeds in eliminating himself, he will at least spare the rat, an "enterprising animal with as good a chance as any of developing intelligence." Science fiction fans may be interested in learning that a certain G.W. Ballard, leader of the "Great I Am" cult, supposedly founded by a certain "Saint Germain" of Mount Shasta, has made the announcement to his faithful followers that, thanks to the intervention of Saint Germain, a gaseous God-force known as K-17 has recently destroyed a fleet of hostile submarines off our beloved shores with a Sword of Purple Flame. It's a fact: See the American Mercury for February '41, p. 171. John Wasso jr. asks for the identification, as to when and where first published, of the following stories: "A Fragment of a Dream" by Donald Wandrei; "The Amiable Aroma"; "Between Worlds" by Keith (do not confuse with story of same title by Garrett Smith); "The Door to Saturn": "The Machine Stops"; "The Power and the Glory"; "The Second Shell" and "Wolves of Darkness," by Williamson Can anyone oblige? In one of our periodic forays into the unexplored wilds of
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DETOURS LOUIS RUSSELL CHAUVENET As we do not know anything in particular about running a fan column, it is our amiable intention to wander along in much the same style as that of the deceased fanzine from which the columnar title has been lifted. For those who have not met us before, we may remark that this usually consists of discussions in an airy, light manner about whatever chances to interest us at the moment. * * * * * Says Prof. H. H. Newman in "The Phylum Chordata," "Let the modern birds consider the sparrow and his ways. He is plain and homely, eats anything, lives anywhere, builds his nests in strange and unfamiliar places, using new and untried materials. He can whip anything his own size in feathers, but does not needlessly pick a quarrel, and he can put up with either cold or heat, drought or flood; they all look alike to him. Doubtless in the distant future he will probably dispute for the supremacy of the earth with the mouse, the ant, and super-man." This observation by an eminent zoologist reminds us of a somewhat similar remark of J.B.S. Haldane's, who once expressed a hope that if man succeeds in eliminating himself, he will at least spare the rat, an "enterprising animal with as good a chance as any of developing intelligence." Science fiction fans may be interested in learning that a certain G.W. Ballard, leader of the "Great I Am" cult, supposedly founded by a certain "Saint Germain" of Mount Shasta, has made the announcement to his faithful followers that, thanks to the intervention of Saint Germain, a gaseous God-force known as K-17 has recently destroyed a fleet of hostile submarines off our beloved shores with a Sword of Purple Flame. It's a fact: See the American Mercury for February '41, p. 171. John Wasso jr. asks for the identification, as to when and where first published, of the following stories: "A Fragment of a Dream" by Donald Wandrei; "The Amiable Aroma"; "Between Worlds" by Keith (do not confuse with story of same title by Garrett Smith); "The Door to Saturn": "The Machine Stops"; "The Power and the Glory"; "The Second Shell" and "Wolves of Darkness," by Williamson Can anyone oblige? In one of our periodic forays into the unexplored wilds of
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