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Horizons, v. 5, issue 3, whole no. 19, June 1944

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drains, pointing down the sewers, and turn them on whenever it starts snowing. Their suctive force will draw the whriling crystalline particles down into the nether regions, and will blanket the stink for the rest of the winter, thereby killing off most of the rats who certainly couldn't find any reason to live without nice foul odors. The matter of fan ethics calls for a lot of the discussion. I don't feel up to writing a whole article on the subject but some of my ideas, very briefly expressed, might run like this: Visits to other fans don't oblige hospitality, which the other fan may not find it convenient. They similarly don't excuse the borrowing of money, clothes, or anything else in the name of fandom. Correspondence involves the duty of answering letters, when they obviously need an answer, and promptly. The free fanzine question: no fan editor should expect or demand payment from those to whom he send his magazine, if such sending hasn't solicited; there are always those who just aren't interested, and are no more obligated to pay or return the publication than is a stamp collector who receives a sheet of "approvals" without asking that they be sent. Fan publishing certainly entails a number of points: excerpts from correspondence that may prove embarrassing to the writer or someone else shouldn't be printed, though on the other hand the fan who writes a letter should specifically state the fact that something therein is not for print or quotation to others. Material unused because of a magazine's folding should certainly be returned to author, not given to another fanzine. Unauthorized use of names, a la Degler, is most certainly not cricket; ditto stealing of fanzine titles, ideas for projects that the creator is planning to carry out, and such like. who else has ideas? "Fan-Tods, as always, is frighteningly thorough and final. I can merely say that it's swell reading, that I wish it were clear whether Suddsy or Bates was responsible for the editorial notes in Yesterday's 10,000 Years, and that unless the war gets over very soon there is little need to worry about what an oboe is doing to me. My mentor is now an infantry lieutenant, with the result that I have no source of reeda, and can't play the oboe anymore until he comes back to civilian life or someone who knows how to make the things takes pity on me. Taleri of the 'Evans: My only experience with hunches come when I use the telephone, which I have to do very frequently in the course of an evening. The instant the operator rings a number I'm calling, I get an irresistable feeling of whether or not I'll get an answer, and find myself to be right about nine-ten this or the time. Of course, other factors enter into this: I know something of the at-home habits of many of the people I must call, and the fact that people are more often at home than away makes me think I'll get response more than 50% of the time, thus lessening chances of error. __ Phanny: "Fandom as a Way of Life" one of the best bits of writing in the mailing. Browsings: JMR's patience in waiting this long to blast at Miske is most astonishing and commendable. The latter is, though, in the armed forces now; I think however that he waited for the draft to catch up with him. All these notes on books I'll probably never see are fiendishly fascinating. Guteto: Here is one person who has investigated Esperanto, Holand; I every wrote letters in it, eight years ago when some of my first correspondents and I discovered it simultaneously. My interest in it continued a little longer than theirs, I think, but I eventually gave it up as silly to try to force on the world, when so large a part of mankind either uses English as his mother tongue or has a good working knowledge of it through study, and can therefore switch to Basic English with almost no difficulty. Not that I'm positive Basic English is the answer; it's just that I'm convinced that Esperantp isn't, after 60 years or so of vain efforts." Blitherings: Hah, a new brain-truster, another of that group like which I wish I could write! "Sf is sposed to happen: fantasy is just a story so what the hell" is about as close as anyone will ever come to defining the difference between the two. Only fault I can find with this issue is the Sandburg poem, and I'll not go into my opinions on Sandburg here, lest I be taken for a heretic and a couple of dozens other things. I just don't like his poetry or his newspaper columns, and that's all there is ____ Jack of paragraph  in these four pages is _____ directly at Leslie A. C___ Jr.

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drains, pointing down the sewers, and turn them on whenever it starts snowing. Their suctive force will draw the whriling crystalline particles down into the nether regions, and will blanket the stink for the rest of the winter, thereby killing off most of the rats who certainly couldn't find any reason to live without nice foul odors. The matter of fan ethics calls for a lot of the discussion. I don't feel up to writing a whole article on the subject but some of my ideas, very briefly expressed, might run like this: Visits to other fans don't oblige hospitality, which the other fan may not find it convenient. They similarly don't excuse the borrowing of money, clothes, or anything else in the name of fandom. Correspondence involves the duty of answering letters, when they obviously need an answer, and promptly. The free fanzine question: no fan editor should expect or demand payment from those to whom he send his magazine, if such sending hasn't solicited; there are always those who just aren't interested, and are no more obligated to pay or return the publication than is a stamp collector who receives a sheet of "approvals" without asking that they be sent. Fan publishing certainly entails a number of points: excerpts from correspondence that may prove embarrassing to the writer or someone else shouldn't be printed, though on the other hand the fan who writes a letter should specifically state the fact that something therein is not for print or quotation to others. Material unused because of a magazine's folding should certainly be returned to author, not given to another fanzine. Unauthorized use of names, a la Degler, is most certainly not cricket; ditto stealing of fanzine titles, ideas for projects that the creator is planning to carry out, and such like. who else has ideas? "Fan-Tods, as always, is frighteningly thorough and final. I can merely say that it's swell reading, that I wish it were clear whether Suddsy or Bates was responsible for the editorial notes in Yesterday's 10,000 Years, and that unless the war gets over very soon there is little need to worry about what an oboe is doing to me. My mentor is now an infantry lieutenant, with the result that I have no source of reeda, and can't play the oboe anymore until he comes back to civilian life or someone who knows how to make the things takes pity on me. Taleri of the 'Evans: My only experience with hunches come when I use the telephone, which I have to do very frequently in the course of an evening. The instant the operator rings a number I'm calling, I get an irresistable feeling of whether or not I'll get an answer, and find myself to be right about nine-ten this or the time. Of course, other factors enter into this: I know something of the at-home habits of many of the people I must call, and the fact that people are more often at home than away makes me think I'll get response more than 50% of the time, thus lessening chances of error. __ Phanny: "Fandom as a Way of Life" one of the best bits of writing in the mailing. Browsings: JMR's patience in waiting this long to blast at Miske is most astonishing and commendable. The latter is, though, in the armed forces now; I think however that he waited for the draft to catch up with him. All these notes on books I'll probably never see are fiendishly fascinating. Guteto: Here is one person who has investigated Esperanto, Holand; I every wrote letters in it, eight years ago when some of my first correspondents and I discovered it simultaneously. My interest in it continued a little longer than theirs, I think, but I eventually gave it up as silly to try to force on the world, when so large a part of mankind either uses English as his mother tongue or has a good working knowledge of it through study, and can therefore switch to Basic English with almost no difficulty. Not that I'm positive Basic English is the answer; it's just that I'm convinced that Esperantp isn't, after 60 years or so of vain efforts." Blitherings: Hah, a new brain-truster, another of that group like which I wish I could write! "Sf is sposed to happen: fantasy is just a story so what the hell" is about as close as anyone will ever come to defining the difference between the two. Only fault I can find with this issue is the Sandburg poem, and I'll not go into my opinions on Sandburg here, lest I be taken for a heretic and a couple of dozens other things. I just don't like his poetry or his newspaper columns, and that's all there is ____ Jack of paragraph in these four pages is _____ directly at Leslie A. C___ Jr.