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Fandemonium, issue 2, Summer 1948
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The interlined poem on pages 11 and 12 was very good and with no little amount of truth behind it. 'Twas through the pages of Wepple-Kit that Burgess first contacted me. The rest of the comments all that could be asked for and then some. Thanks for the listing of the mags in the second mailing, but I doubt that many will join you in your laureate selections. Tsk, parsimony again rears its ugly head in the duplimat ad; I can see Coswal now, sitting home evenings letting the vast profits of his fan existence sift through his fingers, afterward stashing it away in old hollowed-out Amazing Quarterlies, rather than trust the banks. A final word of warning, Walter: you are going at fandom much too seriously I fear. Slow down, lest you burn yourself out, your fall be excessively hard. I liked the cover on QUEER, particularly the Leebrowncoye-type letters in the title. Your mailing review was too short: after all, if comments aren't everything, they'll fill the bill for me till it comes along. The tales of your misadventures in Clyde, written from two viewpoints was highly entertaining, and I hardly know how to say which one was the better; they were both swell. I still chuckle over such typerrors as "bottle of mile" and "teooro" and did you intend to be an "e" in "mss" on page two? Your half page of comments rounds out a rather enjoyable issue. Another first-rater, SPACEHOUND'S GAZETTE, garnished with a typically great Kennedy free-hand cover, is now turned up. This fellow is definitely the best informal artist in fandom; I wish I didn't have to rely solely on the drab, guide-lettered headings I use. "Revenge" was so excellent that no hackneyed adjective will describe it; but then, what's so wrong with "excellent"? I see Schaumburger's name affixed to it, but I feel sure Kennedy had a hand in it somewhere, for it has his touch about it. Come clean, Joo, just what part did you play in it? Ghost-write the whole thing? Though you wrote your sermon in a mood considerably less than serious, probably, still there is unfortunately too much truth in to allow me to pass over it without a word. Even though, you say, your words probably won't last long, still they will live in substance in that others down the centuries will repeat them, and truthfully so. I think the radio demonstrates more completely each day the increasing decadence of the tastes and ideals of the people of this age. (Out of this channel, but after all this is a SAPS mag.) Strange isn't it, that with each generation, science increases its output of wonders beneficent to the race, and yet each out-going era feels sure that the next is going to pot? Envy of age for youth, maybe, or could it be correct? Since Burgess' DIAGRAM-SCARAB has arrived, you can see now that Ward's TTT was not the first to use 9x12 paper. Even though Ward's effort did appear first, Burgess' item was published last September, but was delayed by Dunkelberger. This unexpected egoboo may lure Burgess back to fandom. News items: It was shortly after FRB put out his mammoth size issue that he quit fanning; now after Ward attempts a similar project, I see that he has left too. could be a connection, maybe? Anyone know any fans they want to send any 9x12 construction paper to? Mailing comments very much all right. Joe, you can easily climb out from under my criticism of "here-today-gone-tomorrow" fans because you still maintain a good bit of active publishing, and also your attitude toward your withdrawal is radically different from Burgess'. Thanks for understanding my ravings better than most of the others. The Blue Bem page, as usual, shows little planning beforehand, if any; I would like to see you really put some thought behind it and cook us up a dilly of a strip one time. Incidentally, it looks to me as if the BEM should be an evil being instead of a superman. It's "ignoramus" (I should know), you sonnet! Fine issue: more, please. THE SPECTATOR is competent enough that it requires no comment. Brave for the ruling against post-mailings. I question crediting DUD and NAMLEPS as one page, but doubt that Coslet and Spelman will have any need for them, so no matter. Please, friend Alpaugh, no "a" on my name. 10
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The interlined poem on pages 11 and 12 was very good and with no little amount of truth behind it. 'Twas through the pages of Wepple-Kit that Burgess first contacted me. The rest of the comments all that could be asked for and then some. Thanks for the listing of the mags in the second mailing, but I doubt that many will join you in your laureate selections. Tsk, parsimony again rears its ugly head in the duplimat ad; I can see Coswal now, sitting home evenings letting the vast profits of his fan existence sift through his fingers, afterward stashing it away in old hollowed-out Amazing Quarterlies, rather than trust the banks. A final word of warning, Walter: you are going at fandom much too seriously I fear. Slow down, lest you burn yourself out, your fall be excessively hard. I liked the cover on QUEER, particularly the Leebrowncoye-type letters in the title. Your mailing review was too short: after all, if comments aren't everything, they'll fill the bill for me till it comes along. The tales of your misadventures in Clyde, written from two viewpoints was highly entertaining, and I hardly know how to say which one was the better; they were both swell. I still chuckle over such typerrors as "bottle of mile" and "teooro" and did you intend to be an "e" in "mss" on page two? Your half page of comments rounds out a rather enjoyable issue. Another first-rater, SPACEHOUND'S GAZETTE, garnished with a typically great Kennedy free-hand cover, is now turned up. This fellow is definitely the best informal artist in fandom; I wish I didn't have to rely solely on the drab, guide-lettered headings I use. "Revenge" was so excellent that no hackneyed adjective will describe it; but then, what's so wrong with "excellent"? I see Schaumburger's name affixed to it, but I feel sure Kennedy had a hand in it somewhere, for it has his touch about it. Come clean, Joo, just what part did you play in it? Ghost-write the whole thing? Though you wrote your sermon in a mood considerably less than serious, probably, still there is unfortunately too much truth in to allow me to pass over it without a word. Even though, you say, your words probably won't last long, still they will live in substance in that others down the centuries will repeat them, and truthfully so. I think the radio demonstrates more completely each day the increasing decadence of the tastes and ideals of the people of this age. (Out of this channel, but after all this is a SAPS mag.) Strange isn't it, that with each generation, science increases its output of wonders beneficent to the race, and yet each out-going era feels sure that the next is going to pot? Envy of age for youth, maybe, or could it be correct? Since Burgess' DIAGRAM-SCARAB has arrived, you can see now that Ward's TTT was not the first to use 9x12 paper. Even though Ward's effort did appear first, Burgess' item was published last September, but was delayed by Dunkelberger. This unexpected egoboo may lure Burgess back to fandom. News items: It was shortly after FRB put out his mammoth size issue that he quit fanning; now after Ward attempts a similar project, I see that he has left too. could be a connection, maybe? Anyone know any fans they want to send any 9x12 construction paper to? Mailing comments very much all right. Joe, you can easily climb out from under my criticism of "here-today-gone-tomorrow" fans because you still maintain a good bit of active publishing, and also your attitude toward your withdrawal is radically different from Burgess'. Thanks for understanding my ravings better than most of the others. The Blue Bem page, as usual, shows little planning beforehand, if any; I would like to see you really put some thought behind it and cook us up a dilly of a strip one time. Incidentally, it looks to me as if the BEM should be an evil being instead of a superman. It's "ignoramus" (I should know), you sonnet! Fine issue: more, please. THE SPECTATOR is competent enough that it requires no comment. Brave for the ruling against post-mailings. I question crediting DUD and NAMLEPS as one page, but doubt that Coslet and Spelman will have any need for them, so no matter. Please, friend Alpaugh, no "a" on my name. 10
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