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Mercury, v. 1, issue 5, 1940

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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION
(Paid Ad)
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Over from England via air flew this transAtlanticommunication from 
[Giarnell?]
17 Burwash Rd, Plumstead SE18, London, England: LETTER TO VOICE OF THE IMAGINOTION: The last two issues of VoMit seem to me, (, missing somewhere?) call for an independent diatribe it seems. Especially as the great Ampas'and often takes it upon himself to publish extracts from my personal memoirs to Hollywood on the Balloon. Forrie might be a good picker as far as racehorses and raspberries are concerned, but he's a piker at sub-editing. The only consolation is that he does blue-pencil the right blue-pencil parts -- never inserts any of the filthay jokes we swap! -- April VoM was awaiting me when the colloquial "we" arrived at 1.00 pm last night from the Birchby 21st Birthday riot. VoM kept me up another half hour. It's still the finest magazine I've never paid for -- pause for all bonafide subscribers to call up GLadstone 5131, Hollywood, and ask for the Ampas'and. -- Most certainly should you retain the contents page. It makes it so much easier to ignore reading the meanderings of one's enemies or friends -- kinda cutting 'em dead behind their back. -- Note to Widner; am collecting as many British votes on ten best authors as possible. Will forge the voting before sending to you, having seen how the pohl goes via Tuckerave notice in Zzzzzzzombie -- hope it reaches you before the Final Blackout. -- Seem to have read all those windy words Aussie Roberts wrote. Weren't they cribbed from Baedecker's or did I see them on a hoarding in France? -- Who is this mauling menace Clarke who babbles lyrically about the Barrage Baboons? The guy's raving. He'd just left the region of Tauras 'The Bull' when he saw that vista of blue pencil gasbags, and, believe me, they don't look anything like the Clarke dream -- when they are up. When the things are down, or coming down, they certainly look futuristic, but, when they are up they look like (censored.) (By us). (Meaning ye transAtlantiCarnell.) -- Deer Spear, Thy shaft went home truly. My mind is now a one-track mine owing to the influence of propaganda, especially American. I quit listening to German news in English because the truth hurt so much. After the entire Allied fleets had been sunk for the third time in the entirety -- due to a process of regurgitation presumeably. And the British Army had been captured in a telephone kiosk; the Air Force swept from the skies after one direct hit. Come to that I also gave up reading the news-sheets, there being a shortage of the stuff anywhow, and only listen to the radio, which I no longer believe. 'Murder' -- the act of unlawfully killing a human being with premeditated malice. That includes mines, planes, guns and shells, ships and shoes and sealing wax, brother Jack. Does war automatically make these things legal, whoever is supposed to be in the right or wrong? -- I have invented a fluid which completely erases mimeograph ink and leaves the treated paper 'an unimpaired pristine whiteness' as George Bernard Henry George Wells Roberts quoted. -- Hail O Gilberti, the first guy who has ever had the courage of his convictions to publicly retract and agree that he has indulged in muck-slinging, and apologise into the bargain. Pity there aren't a lot more fellows who are as stout-hearted as you are and know when to stop the rot. -- This Wells business is a mania with the Sphinx, he once camped out in the Park under HG's window on the offchance that some crumbs of wisdom would be blown out. But they weren't -- and so he still can't write!" -- THE FOREGOING IS A SAMPLE OF ONE OF THE SERIOUS LETTERS FOUND IN THE BI-MONTHLY "FORUM OF FANDOM" KNOWN AS THE VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION, PUBLISHT BY FORREST J ACKERMAN & MOROJO AT 10C A COPY FROM BX 6475 MET STA, LOS ANGELES CAL. INCLUDED IN THE CURRENT ISSUE ARE OTHER EQUALLY INTERESTING LETTERS FROM ENGLAND, AUSTRALIA, CANADA & FRANCE, PLUS "LETTERS FROM HOME" BY WARNER, WILSON, WIDNER, PERRI, KORSHAK, PERDUE, LOWNDES, WRIGHT, & A COVER BY KNIGHT. TRY IT!

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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION (Paid Ad) 13 Over from England via air flew this transAtlanticommunication from [Giarnell?] 17 Burwash Rd, Plumstead SE18, London, England: LETTER TO VOICE OF THE IMAGINOTION: The last two issues of VoMit seem to me, (, missing somewhere?) call for an independent diatribe it seems. Especially as the great Ampas'and often takes it upon himself to publish extracts from my personal memoirs to Hollywood on the Balloon. Forrie might be a good picker as far as racehorses and raspberries are concerned, but he's a piker at sub-editing. The only consolation is that he does blue-pencil the right blue-pencil parts -- never inserts any of the filthay jokes we swap! -- April VoM was awaiting me when the colloquial "we" arrived at 1.00 pm last night from the Birchby 21st Birthday riot. VoM kept me up another half hour. It's still the finest magazine I've never paid for -- pause for all bonafide subscribers to call up GLadstone 5131, Hollywood, and ask for the Ampas'and. -- Most certainly should you retain the contents page. It makes it so much easier to ignore reading the meanderings of one's enemies or friends -- kinda cutting 'em dead behind their back. -- Note to Widner; am collecting as many British votes on ten best authors as possible. Will forge the voting before sending to you, having seen how the pohl goes via Tuckerave notice in Zzzzzzzombie -- hope it reaches you before the Final Blackout. -- Seem to have read all those windy words Aussie Roberts wrote. Weren't they cribbed from Baedecker's or did I see them on a hoarding in France? -- Who is this mauling menace Clarke who babbles lyrically about the Barrage Baboons? The guy's raving. He'd just left the region of Tauras 'The Bull' when he saw that vista of blue pencil gasbags, and, believe me, they don't look anything like the Clarke dream -- when they are up. When the things are down, or coming down, they certainly look futuristic, but, when they are up they look like (censored.) (By us). (Meaning ye transAtlantiCarnell.) -- Deer Spear, Thy shaft went home truly. My mind is now a one-track mine owing to the influence of propaganda, especially American. I quit listening to German news in English because the truth hurt so much. After the entire Allied fleets had been sunk for the third time in the entirety -- due to a process of regurgitation presumeably. And the British Army had been captured in a telephone kiosk; the Air Force swept from the skies after one direct hit. Come to that I also gave up reading the news-sheets, there being a shortage of the stuff anywhow, and only listen to the radio, which I no longer believe. 'Murder' -- the act of unlawfully killing a human being with premeditated malice. That includes mines, planes, guns and shells, ships and shoes and sealing wax, brother Jack. Does war automatically make these things legal, whoever is supposed to be in the right or wrong? -- I have invented a fluid which completely erases mimeograph ink and leaves the treated paper 'an unimpaired pristine whiteness' as George Bernard Henry George Wells Roberts quoted. -- Hail O Gilberti, the first guy who has ever had the courage of his convictions to publicly retract and agree that he has indulged in muck-slinging, and apologise into the bargain. Pity there aren't a lot more fellows who are as stout-hearted as you are and know when to stop the rot. -- This Wells business is a mania with the Sphinx, he once camped out in the Park under HG's window on the offchance that some crumbs of wisdom would be blown out. But they weren't -- and so he still can't write!" -- THE FOREGOING IS A SAMPLE OF ONE OF THE SERIOUS LETTERS FOUND IN THE BI-MONTHLY "FORUM OF FANDOM" KNOWN AS THE VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION, PUBLISHT BY FORREST J ACKERMAN & MOROJO AT 10C A COPY FROM BX 6475 MET STA, LOS ANGELES CAL. INCLUDED IN THE CURRENT ISSUE ARE OTHER EQUALLY INTERESTING LETTERS FROM ENGLAND, AUSTRALIA, CANADA & FRANCE, PLUS "LETTERS FROM HOME" BY WARNER, WILSON, WIDNER, PERRI, KORSHAK, PERDUE, LOWNDES, WRIGHT, & A COVER BY KNIGHT. TRY IT!