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Acolyte, v. 4, issue 1, whole no. 13, Winter 1946

70 PURE FANTASY
71 The next world (after death)
72 Miracles
73 Reincarnation
74 Wish-granting
75 Fairy tales
76 Inanimate objects coming to life
77 Other civilizations, worlds, universes
78 Fortean themes (Vitons; matter is mind)
SUBSIDIARY SYMBOLS
B1 Borderline (atmospheric)
B2 Borderline (plot, logic)
D Drma
De Detective
F Pure Fantasy
H Humor
J Juvenile
P Poetry
S Satire
Sc Science-Fiction
T Tales
W Weird
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THE JUFFUSIAN CLASSIFICATION
By Jack Speer
-oOo-
F this system is good, give plenty of credit to numerous FAPA members and others, and in particular Don Bratton, who provided many valuable suggestions and comments. If it isn't, blame me for not following more of their advice.
It will not be possible here to five in detail the reasons for headings being the way they are and gaps left in particular places. I can only explain how the system is supposed to work, and hope that some of you will try it out.
The theory followed in drawing it up is that in fantasy stories we are interested in and remember the results of departures in and remember the results of departures from things mundane. If the results of two different (?) phenomena, such as ancestral memory and reincarnation, are practically indistinguishable, there should not be two different places to index them.
It is impossible to altogether avoid overlapping in categories. But we can, to a large extent, place adjacent to each other the subjects which are likely to be intermingled, so that the classifier will be warned and the anthology-compiler guided. It is because of this consideration that Our Barbarous Descendants are placed at the beginning of the 42. group, near Decay of Man, and Ice Age at the end, near Extraordinary Astronomical Phenomena. The abba arrangement within the 33. group is explained by the same principle.
A person automatically feels, when he doesn't find a particular subheading for a mutant type of story, that there ought to be one provided. We can thank our stars for off-trail fiction, but practical considerations forbid setting up numbers under which there will be only one or two stories. Use the general heading (such as 36. or 41. or 60.), and if enough plots of a particular type pile up there, a subdivision can be created for them,
If we agree that all stories involving the fourth spatial dimension should be indexed under a single general heading or its subdivisions (32.), and that stories of spacemen's mishape should be fenced off in one place (45.2), we inevitably discover that a story of spacemen running into a dimensional warp needs than one classification.
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70 PURE FANTASY 71 The next world (after death) 72 Miracles 73 Reincarnation 74 Wish-granting 75 Fairy tales 76 Inanimate objects coming to life 77 Other civilizations, worlds, universes 78 Fortean themes (Vitons; matter is mind) SUBSIDIARY SYMBOLS B1 Borderline (atmospheric) B2 Borderline (plot, logic) D Drma De Detective F Pure Fantasy H Humor J Juvenile P Poetry S Satire Sc Science-Fiction T Tales W Weird ----oOo---- THE JUFFUSIAN CLASSIFICATION By Jack Speer -oOo- F this system is good, give plenty of credit to numerous FAPA members and others, and in particular Don Bratton, who provided many valuable suggestions and comments. If it isn't, blame me for not following more of their advice. It will not be possible here to five in detail the reasons for headings being the way they are and gaps left in particular places. I can only explain how the system is supposed to work, and hope that some of you will try it out. The theory followed in drawing it up is that in fantasy stories we are interested in and remember the results of departures in and remember the results of departures from things mundane. If the results of two different (?) phenomena, such as ancestral memory and reincarnation, are practically indistinguishable, there should not be two different places to index them. It is impossible to altogether avoid overlapping in categories. But we can, to a large extent, place adjacent to each other the subjects which are likely to be intermingled, so that the classifier will be warned and the anthology-compiler guided. It is because of this consideration that Our Barbarous Descendants are placed at the beginning of the 42. group, near Decay of Man, and Ice Age at the end, near Extraordinary Astronomical Phenomena. The abba arrangement within the 33. group is explained by the same principle. A person automatically feels, when he doesn't find a particular subheading for a mutant type of story, that there ought to be one provided. We can thank our stars for off-trail fiction, but practical considerations forbid setting up numbers under which there will be only one or two stories. Use the general heading (such as 36. or 41. or 60.), and if enough plots of a particular type pile up there, a subdivision can be created for them, If we agree that all stories involving the fourth spatial dimension should be indexed under a single general heading or its subdivisions (32.), and that stories of spacemen's mishape should be fenced off in one place (45.2), we inevitably discover that a story of spacemen running into a dimensional warp needs than one classification. -- 8 --