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Fantascience Digest, v. 3, issue 3, whole no. 15, November-December 1941
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Page 20 cited over the doings of this foursome as I do over the experiences of Little Mary Mixup in the funny papers, and I sincerely hope the High Muckamuck of Macaroon DOES prove of such invaluable assistance to Blacky DuQuesne that that worthy shakes D, M, C and S out of their smug, stolid self aplomb and gets them as jittery as jaybirds. From all the foregoing you can pretty well determine that the author is rather fed up on THE FROLIC APACE and is loath to continue. Just in case he should change his mind, however, he has selected as the title for Part IV: FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON IN EIGHTY DAYS, or TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. It's going to be replete with new characters, new stuff and such, new zip. It'll be about Pellucidar and David Innes and "Survival" and it'll be about one paragraph long. We know you will all be looking foreward to it so that you will be able to look backward at it. So we leave you now with a burning question in our mind (minds? No.): Did Dottie make eight spades? Or did the High Muckamuck of Macaroon make a grand slam? I'm afraid -- sigh! -- that that will be one of life's great secrets, because I must now leave you for the nonce, at once. -------- It Certainly Does Fugit by Harry Warner, Jr. -------- There recently appeared in SUN TRAILS an article analyzing the cost of being a fan. However, no one seems to have done any calculating yet on a similar subject: just how much time fandom consumes. Therefore, I'm going to try to remedy the deficiency. And in so doing, I shall be writing for the ages. Others can cipher out the money they spend, based on the temporal capitalistic system; I am writing on a subject guaranteed changeless! This article, incidentally, will contain a tremendous number of first person singular pronouns. Can't be helped; sorry. And remember, these figures are about me, and me only. They aren't meant as an attempt to show just how much time the average fan devotes to his hobby, because I spend more time on stf. fandom than the average active fan. But they should establish a sort of framework for you to figure your own time expenditures on, if you wish. First of all, fanzine publishing. Aside from miscellaneous magazines, which will be spoken of later, I issue eight copies of SPACEWAYS and four of HORIZONS each year. That means approximately two hundred pages of the former and fifty of the latter must be put out each year. And it requires almost precisely one hour for me to do one page of either. A page of SPACEWAYS takes about twenty minutes to dummy, twenty-five minutes to stanoil, and the remaining fifteen minutes to mimeograph. (Of course, if I'd get out manuscripts, edit and dummy a page, then clean my type, take a stencil and stencil it, and finally get the mimeo in running order, ink it up, and run the page through, somewhat
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Page 20 cited over the doings of this foursome as I do over the experiences of Little Mary Mixup in the funny papers, and I sincerely hope the High Muckamuck of Macaroon DOES prove of such invaluable assistance to Blacky DuQuesne that that worthy shakes D, M, C and S out of their smug, stolid self aplomb and gets them as jittery as jaybirds. From all the foregoing you can pretty well determine that the author is rather fed up on THE FROLIC APACE and is loath to continue. Just in case he should change his mind, however, he has selected as the title for Part IV: FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON IN EIGHTY DAYS, or TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. It's going to be replete with new characters, new stuff and such, new zip. It'll be about Pellucidar and David Innes and "Survival" and it'll be about one paragraph long. We know you will all be looking foreward to it so that you will be able to look backward at it. So we leave you now with a burning question in our mind (minds? No.): Did Dottie make eight spades? Or did the High Muckamuck of Macaroon make a grand slam? I'm afraid -- sigh! -- that that will be one of life's great secrets, because I must now leave you for the nonce, at once. -------- It Certainly Does Fugit by Harry Warner, Jr. -------- There recently appeared in SUN TRAILS an article analyzing the cost of being a fan. However, no one seems to have done any calculating yet on a similar subject: just how much time fandom consumes. Therefore, I'm going to try to remedy the deficiency. And in so doing, I shall be writing for the ages. Others can cipher out the money they spend, based on the temporal capitalistic system; I am writing on a subject guaranteed changeless! This article, incidentally, will contain a tremendous number of first person singular pronouns. Can't be helped; sorry. And remember, these figures are about me, and me only. They aren't meant as an attempt to show just how much time the average fan devotes to his hobby, because I spend more time on stf. fandom than the average active fan. But they should establish a sort of framework for you to figure your own time expenditures on, if you wish. First of all, fanzine publishing. Aside from miscellaneous magazines, which will be spoken of later, I issue eight copies of SPACEWAYS and four of HORIZONS each year. That means approximately two hundred pages of the former and fifty of the latter must be put out each year. And it requires almost precisely one hour for me to do one page of either. A page of SPACEWAYS takes about twenty minutes to dummy, twenty-five minutes to stanoil, and the remaining fifteen minutes to mimeograph. (Of course, if I'd get out manuscripts, edit and dummy a page, then clean my type, take a stencil and stencil it, and finally get the mimeo in running order, ink it up, and run the page through, somewhat
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