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Science Fiction World , v. 1, issue 4, August 1946
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SCIENCE FICTION WORLD (10) ODD BITS .... Editor Cincinnati vicinity fandom may be looking up In the next ten months. Stanley Skirvln has come back from the Navy and is desirous of becoming an active fan having already contacted Tanner and myself. Then, too there is Robert A Bradley, author of a couple of letters in the Planet Stories reader's section who has yet to be contacted. There are also a few other entitles around town who are 'possibles'.... Skirvin reports that on his tours he received word that the lamented Unknown Worlds Is actually in process of production.... He is working on some ideas for SFW... Recent novel presented by Mystery Novel of the Month (25c) was Patrick Quentin's Puzzle for Fiends. Recommended to mystery readers. Quentin also writes good yarns under the name of Q. Patrick..... Fargo passed on, and enroute to the heavenly city, was very disturbed by his unfamiliarity with the knack of finding his way in a multi-dimensional continuum which had no directional referrents. He had just come to the agonizing decision that he had somehow missed his way when, rounding a warp, he spied the eternal city just ahead. Hastening forward he was about to knock for admittance when he chanced to look aloft. There, on the top of the wall, Seattle sat smiling, feet swinging. Fargo cursed under his breath. "Damn it. I knew I was lost." ........................ It seems World of A spirred many fans to the reading Korzybski’s Science and Sanity. I went down to the library and obtained the book some months ago and gave it a superficial reading. One thing sticks out in my mind and that Is what Korzybski calls the "is" of identity." It seems to me that if there is any one thing which has been used so loosely as to cause it to assume an identity which may be very unreal it is nothing but the word ’time*. To the SF fan along with others time has assumed an identity out of all proportion to our knowledge of it. We think of it concretely as — a stream, a fourth dimension, a field, something really tangible which can be reversed, moved through and otherwise dealt with in many plausible (?) ways. I ask you to give me a good definition of time. Have you ever done any serious thinking as to the nature of time? When we measure 'time' we do nothing other than to measure the realitive positions of moving bodies; that is we find some naturally repetitive occurrence such as the motion of the sun about the earth and using such occurrence as a base, we measure 'time'! Isn't it possible that somewhere along the way we’ve allowed our thinking to be muddled? That time has no Identity, no concreteness; that ’time* is a statement of position. Suppose there were no periodically recurrent motions. The measurement of time is merely the measurement of location with reference to moving bodies. The bodies are real; time is an abstraction, a term which has become confused with the reality; has acquired the ’is' of identity.
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SCIENCE FICTION WORLD (10) ODD BITS .... Editor Cincinnati vicinity fandom may be looking up In the next ten months. Stanley Skirvln has come back from the Navy and is desirous of becoming an active fan having already contacted Tanner and myself. Then, too there is Robert A Bradley, author of a couple of letters in the Planet Stories reader's section who has yet to be contacted. There are also a few other entitles around town who are 'possibles'.... Skirvin reports that on his tours he received word that the lamented Unknown Worlds Is actually in process of production.... He is working on some ideas for SFW... Recent novel presented by Mystery Novel of the Month (25c) was Patrick Quentin's Puzzle for Fiends. Recommended to mystery readers. Quentin also writes good yarns under the name of Q. Patrick..... Fargo passed on, and enroute to the heavenly city, was very disturbed by his unfamiliarity with the knack of finding his way in a multi-dimensional continuum which had no directional referrents. He had just come to the agonizing decision that he had somehow missed his way when, rounding a warp, he spied the eternal city just ahead. Hastening forward he was about to knock for admittance when he chanced to look aloft. There, on the top of the wall, Seattle sat smiling, feet swinging. Fargo cursed under his breath. "Damn it. I knew I was lost." ........................ It seems World of A spirred many fans to the reading Korzybski’s Science and Sanity. I went down to the library and obtained the book some months ago and gave it a superficial reading. One thing sticks out in my mind and that Is what Korzybski calls the "is" of identity." It seems to me that if there is any one thing which has been used so loosely as to cause it to assume an identity which may be very unreal it is nothing but the word ’time*. To the SF fan along with others time has assumed an identity out of all proportion to our knowledge of it. We think of it concretely as — a stream, a fourth dimension, a field, something really tangible which can be reversed, moved through and otherwise dealt with in many plausible (?) ways. I ask you to give me a good definition of time. Have you ever done any serious thinking as to the nature of time? When we measure 'time' we do nothing other than to measure the realitive positions of moving bodies; that is we find some naturally repetitive occurrence such as the motion of the sun about the earth and using such occurrence as a base, we measure 'time'! Isn't it possible that somewhere along the way we’ve allowed our thinking to be muddled? That time has no Identity, no concreteness; that ’time* is a statement of position. Suppose there were no periodically recurrent motions. The measurement of time is merely the measurement of location with reference to moving bodies. The bodies are real; time is an abstraction, a term which has become confused with the reality; has acquired the ’is' of identity.
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