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Phanteur, whole no. 1, January 1946
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13 PHANTEUR At least, it does for me. I don't think I'm alone in that. For every man who goes for Tennyson, Browning, and the other greats of other days, I suppose a thousand go for Guest; and for every one who goes for Ebey, Chapper, Singleton, or Lowndes, or Willie, probably a million would go for EEE's "newspaper verse." Nope, EEE, Willie won’t believe you, any more than he would be believe me a year ago, when I predicted that he would mellow with the years. NONESUCH: Here we seem to have a fresh viewpoint in the FAPA. I think we can use a few such. -- I don’t know much, if anything about the reincarnation concept. How, for example, does the idea handle the constant increase in population; all population, that is, not just human. For surely there are more separate egos now than, say, in the days when the trilobites ruled the seas, and the land areas were untenanted. AFTERTHOUGHTS: Doc’s discussion of the effect of pulps on certain phases of national thought certainly makes sense. The OWI directive aimed at the elimination of the custom of "perpetuating stereotypes" should be sufficient evidence of the general effectiveness of the custom. I suspect that this same directive was one of the main causes of the bitter criticism of OWI policies from some quarters. If carried out, it would destroy one of the main props of the Babble-Rousers. — I enjoyed Blish’s discussion of musical conventions and symbols. CANADIAN FANDOM (No. 9; pre-mailing); A good drawing on the cover. The Chauvinism has been criticized outside of the FAPA, probably justifiably — except for one thing. That is, some national flag probably will wave over the Moon; Space Travel appears just now to be temporally nearer than a true WorId State, altho the standing of the latter concept is higher than any previous time. Manning’s verse seems to be more notable for its general unscanability than for anything else. The top item in the issue is certainly Harden' s ’’Votary of Destruction,’ a very fair piece of fan fiction. Hurter's "Stuff and Such" isn't far behind, Gray's "goal” is also good. IN MEMORIAM, SARDONYX: Russ's incredible store of memorized poetry probably made this easy for him. 'Tis a very satisfactory leave-taking (if a leave-taking can possibly be satisfactory) it's sardonic enough, and a mite pathetic, too. THE VOICE: First, the proposition to require ”subscription-type” fanzines in the FAPA. I think I can tell you where I stand on that score very quickly; I prefer The Voice to Light; and The Voice certainly has more in common with the typical FAPA publication than it does with Light. I agree that in some fanzines—notably my own—the discussions take up a disproportionate part of the space. But at that, I usually manage to have at least one article and some poetry in PHANTEUR (formerly PHANNY?). I would prefer one more article and a shorter review, but I certainly wouldn't want to eliminate the latter entirely, since it is usually the part of the FAPA that I like best. Sometimes, I've organized the material which would normally go into the reviews into an article, such as "Random as a Way. of Life" and "More on Genius." My failure to do this more often is partly due to laziness and procrastination, partly to an actual lack of time for careful preparation, and partly to liking for the Personalized discussion. I see no merit whatever in the proposal to require publication of some material not written by the editor; it would be a very simple matter to exchange material with some other member and thus meet the requirement for both, without changing the overall picture at all. This issue of PHANTEUR meets your suggested requirements fairly well at that; you don’t have to read the reviews if you prefer not to. I think the unpopularity of Canadian money in this country is almost wholly a matter of population. It is economically practical for Canadian merchants to bother with the matter of exchange rates, because of the large amount of American money reaching Canada.
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13 PHANTEUR At least, it does for me. I don't think I'm alone in that. For every man who goes for Tennyson, Browning, and the other greats of other days, I suppose a thousand go for Guest; and for every one who goes for Ebey, Chapper, Singleton, or Lowndes, or Willie, probably a million would go for EEE's "newspaper verse." Nope, EEE, Willie won’t believe you, any more than he would be believe me a year ago, when I predicted that he would mellow with the years. NONESUCH: Here we seem to have a fresh viewpoint in the FAPA. I think we can use a few such. -- I don’t know much, if anything about the reincarnation concept. How, for example, does the idea handle the constant increase in population; all population, that is, not just human. For surely there are more separate egos now than, say, in the days when the trilobites ruled the seas, and the land areas were untenanted. AFTERTHOUGHTS: Doc’s discussion of the effect of pulps on certain phases of national thought certainly makes sense. The OWI directive aimed at the elimination of the custom of "perpetuating stereotypes" should be sufficient evidence of the general effectiveness of the custom. I suspect that this same directive was one of the main causes of the bitter criticism of OWI policies from some quarters. If carried out, it would destroy one of the main props of the Babble-Rousers. — I enjoyed Blish’s discussion of musical conventions and symbols. CANADIAN FANDOM (No. 9; pre-mailing); A good drawing on the cover. The Chauvinism has been criticized outside of the FAPA, probably justifiably — except for one thing. That is, some national flag probably will wave over the Moon; Space Travel appears just now to be temporally nearer than a true WorId State, altho the standing of the latter concept is higher than any previous time. Manning’s verse seems to be more notable for its general unscanability than for anything else. The top item in the issue is certainly Harden' s ’’Votary of Destruction,’ a very fair piece of fan fiction. Hurter's "Stuff and Such" isn't far behind, Gray's "goal” is also good. IN MEMORIAM, SARDONYX: Russ's incredible store of memorized poetry probably made this easy for him. 'Tis a very satisfactory leave-taking (if a leave-taking can possibly be satisfactory) it's sardonic enough, and a mite pathetic, too. THE VOICE: First, the proposition to require ”subscription-type” fanzines in the FAPA. I think I can tell you where I stand on that score very quickly; I prefer The Voice to Light; and The Voice certainly has more in common with the typical FAPA publication than it does with Light. I agree that in some fanzines—notably my own—the discussions take up a disproportionate part of the space. But at that, I usually manage to have at least one article and some poetry in PHANTEUR (formerly PHANNY?). I would prefer one more article and a shorter review, but I certainly wouldn't want to eliminate the latter entirely, since it is usually the part of the FAPA that I like best. Sometimes, I've organized the material which would normally go into the reviews into an article, such as "Random as a Way. of Life" and "More on Genius." My failure to do this more often is partly due to laziness and procrastination, partly to an actual lack of time for careful preparation, and partly to liking for the Personalized discussion. I see no merit whatever in the proposal to require publication of some material not written by the editor; it would be a very simple matter to exchange material with some other member and thus meet the requirement for both, without changing the overall picture at all. This issue of PHANTEUR meets your suggested requirements fairly well at that; you don’t have to read the reviews if you prefer not to. I think the unpopularity of Canadian money in this country is almost wholly a matter of population. It is economically practical for Canadian merchants to bother with the matter of exchange rates, because of the large amount of American money reaching Canada.
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