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Vampire, whole no. 8, December 1946
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ber Vamp. I wonder if the cover title, "Morning After the Convention" was added by you, or was what Kessel had in mind. I hope the ugly nude in the upper-right-hand corner doesn't mean you're going in for this sort of thing. ((Hi, now, sir-- what are you accusing me of?)) The Odd Brothers is okay-- which, considering the prejudice against fiction in fanzines, is saying considerable-- but I miss the satire you say is mixed in. Ungraciously, I have to register a dissent to Laney's opinion that Up to Now was less biased and more accurate in details than The Immortal Storm. As he comes up into the events in which he partook, Moskowitz may become guilty of more slanting; but so far, aside from some scarcely noticeable prejudice against Ackerman, he has remained commendably impartial, without becoming uninteresting-- and the factual research in The Immortal Storm is out of Up to Now's class entirely. ((Sam will love yuh for that.)) Gerry seems to overlook something in discussing the type of fan who says "I don't know anything about music." True, he could listen and at least note which records he likes or dislikes. But suppose he isn't interested? Suppose music above the ballad level has so little meaning for him that he can seldom say that he likes or dislikes, it, and what he likes he doesn't like well enuf to spend much time listening to it? Wesson's letter seems to have been written without reference to the article by Fox which called forth my ideas on oldtimers and neophytes. There was nothing in my letter implying that I haven't been a neophyte, and an exceptionally unwise one; nor that neophytes (of any age) who show glimmers of intelligence, ability, and at least potential sanity should not be encouraged and aided. ((How about a feature column in which veteran fans confess their follies as beginners in the field?)) THE MADMAN Within his mind white spiders spun A web of smoke that slowly won To every cell. In every thought The white smoke crystallized and brought The change: a crumble-work begun. A mind for normal minds to shun; Within whose labyrinthine run The drifting stuff of dreams blew: caught Within his mind. The fancy-ridden face of one Who moves beneath an alien sun, By alien precepts molded, taught, Until, a thing of faery wrought, The threads of reason came undone! --GEORGE EBEY. [page number:] -30-
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ber Vamp. I wonder if the cover title, "Morning After the Convention" was added by you, or was what Kessel had in mind. I hope the ugly nude in the upper-right-hand corner doesn't mean you're going in for this sort of thing. ((Hi, now, sir-- what are you accusing me of?)) The Odd Brothers is okay-- which, considering the prejudice against fiction in fanzines, is saying considerable-- but I miss the satire you say is mixed in. Ungraciously, I have to register a dissent to Laney's opinion that Up to Now was less biased and more accurate in details than The Immortal Storm. As he comes up into the events in which he partook, Moskowitz may become guilty of more slanting; but so far, aside from some scarcely noticeable prejudice against Ackerman, he has remained commendably impartial, without becoming uninteresting-- and the factual research in The Immortal Storm is out of Up to Now's class entirely. ((Sam will love yuh for that.)) Gerry seems to overlook something in discussing the type of fan who says "I don't know anything about music." True, he could listen and at least note which records he likes or dislikes. But suppose he isn't interested? Suppose music above the ballad level has so little meaning for him that he can seldom say that he likes or dislikes, it, and what he likes he doesn't like well enuf to spend much time listening to it? Wesson's letter seems to have been written without reference to the article by Fox which called forth my ideas on oldtimers and neophytes. There was nothing in my letter implying that I haven't been a neophyte, and an exceptionally unwise one; nor that neophytes (of any age) who show glimmers of intelligence, ability, and at least potential sanity should not be encouraged and aided. ((How about a feature column in which veteran fans confess their follies as beginners in the field?)) THE MADMAN Within his mind white spiders spun A web of smoke that slowly won To every cell. In every thought The white smoke crystallized and brought The change: a crumble-work begun. A mind for normal minds to shun; Within whose labyrinthine run The drifting stuff of dreams blew: caught Within his mind. The fancy-ridden face of one Who moves beneath an alien sun, By alien precepts molded, taught, Until, a thing of faery wrought, The threads of reason came undone! --GEORGE EBEY. [page number:] -30-
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