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Centauri, issue 4, Summer 1945
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THE INEVITABLE EDITORIAL too much; if I didn't, I would have quit it long ago, even as I laid my stamp album aside to collect dust a few years back. Independence in editing is a natural result of this attitude, and because of it my correspondence and magazine suffer. I would like to get Centauri out more often, but not if it conflicts with my other desires and interests. I publish the sort of fanzine that I find most to my liking (not that I want all fan-mags like cent!) and I select the sort of material which I find most to my satisfaction as an editor. I have oftimes tried to outline my ideas on this subject to my correspondents, but I fear that I've been misunderstood in more than one instance. I hope this clears matters up and that everyone understands that I do desire letters of comment on my publishing endeavors! Comment serves, you see, to color and improve my own ideas and to open new avenues of thought leading to a broader perspective. And even when the comment is adverse or highly critical in nature, it does a first-rate job of further inflating my ever-loving ego, for it shows my efforts at least interest you enough to write a letter about them! The contents page this issue is one good example of my feelings. A bit unusual, but that is precisely the idea. No more simple, practical, trite everyday TOCs! In fact, I may print the next so it reads like a mirror image. ---more overside
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THE INEVITABLE EDITORIAL too much; if I didn't, I would have quit it long ago, even as I laid my stamp album aside to collect dust a few years back. Independence in editing is a natural result of this attitude, and because of it my correspondence and magazine suffer. I would like to get Centauri out more often, but not if it conflicts with my other desires and interests. I publish the sort of fanzine that I find most to my liking (not that I want all fan-mags like cent!) and I select the sort of material which I find most to my satisfaction as an editor. I have oftimes tried to outline my ideas on this subject to my correspondents, but I fear that I've been misunderstood in more than one instance. I hope this clears matters up and that everyone understands that I do desire letters of comment on my publishing endeavors! Comment serves, you see, to color and improve my own ideas and to open new avenues of thought leading to a broader perspective. And even when the comment is adverse or highly critical in nature, it does a first-rate job of further inflating my ever-loving ego, for it shows my efforts at least interest you enough to write a letter about them! The contents page this issue is one good example of my feelings. A bit unusual, but that is precisely the idea. No more simple, practical, trite everyday TOCs! In fact, I may print the next so it reads like a mirror image. ---more overside
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