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Horizons, v. 5, issue 3, whole no. 19, June 1944
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warn me to keep my distance from similar picturizations in the future. Only the sequence of the soldiers on leave and the automatic man in the store window had the real Saroyan magic. "A Guy Named Joe", for one glorious moment in which I thought I was set to see a good fantasy. After the first ten minutes of the character's new life, I was wishing frantically that he had found death to be all our militant atheists claim, which would quite naturally have spared the necessity for finishing the film. The one great moment in an otherwise insipid film, "Madame Curie", when the isolated radium is seen through the dark laboratory, as a shining white spot. The honest-to-goodness entertainment value of "Saludos, Amigos", the only Disney item I saw which was free from disturbing ideas about a mission or cultural influences. The unacknowledged use in "Dubarry was a Lady" of the chorus of the druids from my favorite opera, "Mona", horribly butchered to pep it up and accompany a French revolutionary mob. And so it went, with my main impression of all those films being that I'll find some other means of killing the time before long; this way, madness lies. Profit apparently lies that way, too, for the town supports four theaters running seven days a wee, but I can see no reason why anyone should attend them for the sake of entertainment. Warner Compromised Herewith I deny, categorically and with emphasis, any suspicions which may have dwelt in the hitherto pure minds of FAFA members, since they received the last sheaf of Claude Degler publications in general, and number one of Futurian Letters in particular. On the final mimeoed page of this affair, you will find the astonishing statement that "Jody works at Hagerstown". I am very much afraid that this will seem rather sinister to a number of my friends, and that they will begin to worry for my respectability and such things, especially since "at" sounds much more fiendish than "in" would have been. Let me explain, therefore, that if this Jody exists--and I don't think she does--and if she does work in Hagerstown, Maryland, I have never knowingly seen her, or had any contact of any sort whatsoever with her; this line in the Degler magazine is my intimation o such tragedy to the otherwise innocent city of Hagerstown, where we don't have a rape case of oftener than twice a week, and hardly any race riots. Further, I am very much inclined to think that Degler-Bradleigh-Domnick is actually referring to Hagerstown, Indiana, as the place in which or at which the very probably imaginary Jody works. And to conclude, this is as good a place as any to ask once more that mal to me, of any sort, be addressed Hagerstown, Maryland, writing out the Maryland in full instead of taking the easy way out and abbreviating. When it's abbreviated in handwriting, the Md. looks very similar to Ind. and there is quite often a delay of a week or more while it goes to the Hagerstown, Indiana, postoffice and must be forwarded this way. Even if the abbreviation is typed, very often it's missent, especially if posted in Indiana or an adjoining state. Business Matters Is there any FAPA member who reads most or all of the prozines, doesn't collect them, and would be interested in hooking up with me in a deal whereby he'd sell them to me for postage and a fair price? Presumably because of paper cuts, st. and fantasy magazines no longer appear in local second-hand magazine stores, and I still refuse to help support the things by buying them from the stands. My once fine collection is shot full of holes, and I'm very urgently in need of some help in this line. If you're willing, or know someone who might be, let me know!
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warn me to keep my distance from similar picturizations in the future. Only the sequence of the soldiers on leave and the automatic man in the store window had the real Saroyan magic. "A Guy Named Joe", for one glorious moment in which I thought I was set to see a good fantasy. After the first ten minutes of the character's new life, I was wishing frantically that he had found death to be all our militant atheists claim, which would quite naturally have spared the necessity for finishing the film. The one great moment in an otherwise insipid film, "Madame Curie", when the isolated radium is seen through the dark laboratory, as a shining white spot. The honest-to-goodness entertainment value of "Saludos, Amigos", the only Disney item I saw which was free from disturbing ideas about a mission or cultural influences. The unacknowledged use in "Dubarry was a Lady" of the chorus of the druids from my favorite opera, "Mona", horribly butchered to pep it up and accompany a French revolutionary mob. And so it went, with my main impression of all those films being that I'll find some other means of killing the time before long; this way, madness lies. Profit apparently lies that way, too, for the town supports four theaters running seven days a wee, but I can see no reason why anyone should attend them for the sake of entertainment. Warner Compromised Herewith I deny, categorically and with emphasis, any suspicions which may have dwelt in the hitherto pure minds of FAFA members, since they received the last sheaf of Claude Degler publications in general, and number one of Futurian Letters in particular. On the final mimeoed page of this affair, you will find the astonishing statement that "Jody works at Hagerstown". I am very much afraid that this will seem rather sinister to a number of my friends, and that they will begin to worry for my respectability and such things, especially since "at" sounds much more fiendish than "in" would have been. Let me explain, therefore, that if this Jody exists--and I don't think she does--and if she does work in Hagerstown, Maryland, I have never knowingly seen her, or had any contact of any sort whatsoever with her; this line in the Degler magazine is my intimation o such tragedy to the otherwise innocent city of Hagerstown, where we don't have a rape case of oftener than twice a week, and hardly any race riots. Further, I am very much inclined to think that Degler-Bradleigh-Domnick is actually referring to Hagerstown, Indiana, as the place in which or at which the very probably imaginary Jody works. And to conclude, this is as good a place as any to ask once more that mal to me, of any sort, be addressed Hagerstown, Maryland, writing out the Maryland in full instead of taking the easy way out and abbreviating. When it's abbreviated in handwriting, the Md. looks very similar to Ind. and there is quite often a delay of a week or more while it goes to the Hagerstown, Indiana, postoffice and must be forwarded this way. Even if the abbreviation is typed, very often it's missent, especially if posted in Indiana or an adjoining state. Business Matters Is there any FAPA member who reads most or all of the prozines, doesn't collect them, and would be interested in hooking up with me in a deal whereby he'd sell them to me for postage and a fair price? Presumably because of paper cuts, st. and fantasy magazines no longer appear in local second-hand magazine stores, and I still refuse to help support the things by buying them from the stands. My once fine collection is shot full of holes, and I'm very urgently in need of some help in this line. If you're willing, or know someone who might be, let me know!
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