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Diablerie, v. 1, issue 1, January 1944
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ROOMINASHUNS ON INNCOMPETENCY MALIANO If that old fire-eater and revolutionist extraordinary, Ezra Pound, was at this moment six feet under earth's aged epidermis and pushing up the proverbial daises, he would undoubtedly be spinning not too merrily like a pre-war drunk-ard returning to bed after an ill-fated all-night consumption of hooch. And no one, who rightly knows the hap-hazard circumstances under w h i c h t h i s article or reasonable facsimile of one was written, could possibly b l a m e him. Since, however, anarchist Pound is still quite alive and vigorously kicking, any protestations emanating from him will be ignored, and passed over to subjects that might eventually prove to be more entertaining and certainly lively. Undoubtedly the worst perpetration with which fandom has all too recently been confronted is Claude Degler's asinine and imbecilic Cosmic Circle project, an organization which hitherto was lightly and nonchalantly scoffed at and then layed aside as being the feeble-minded idiotism of a more than half-demented egg-head. Degler has proven to be quite an irritant quality on the usually thick hide of fandom, however, and is consequently being given a sound and entirely rational and logical verbal thrashing, which he apparently chooses to be senselessly ignore. Poor us, who have stolidly and almost moronically stood for the maniacal ravings of political and religious and anti-religious fanatics for ten years, to be bothered by such an obviously empty-headed ass- But because of his continual warping and prostitution of the English language, and of science fiction in general, he has gradually grown to become an inhibited menace that should and must be halted, else he finally makes fools of us all through his incessant and indiscreet bellowings both to us and to those who know virtually nothing of science fiction's existence. Proposing we dispose of this hare-brained Cosmic Circle originator and addict is one thing, but actually doing it is another horse of startlingly different color. He is tumultously consistent, and it appears, worse luck, that nothing short of the destruction of the ripe old planet-pardon me, Degler moves in cosmic circles only-destruction of this ripe old universe will stop his fanaticism. The austere members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society appear to have done their level best to appease him and somewhat tone down his (next page)
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ROOMINASHUNS ON INNCOMPETENCY MALIANO If that old fire-eater and revolutionist extraordinary, Ezra Pound, was at this moment six feet under earth's aged epidermis and pushing up the proverbial daises, he would undoubtedly be spinning not too merrily like a pre-war drunk-ard returning to bed after an ill-fated all-night consumption of hooch. And no one, who rightly knows the hap-hazard circumstances under w h i c h t h i s article or reasonable facsimile of one was written, could possibly b l a m e him. Since, however, anarchist Pound is still quite alive and vigorously kicking, any protestations emanating from him will be ignored, and passed over to subjects that might eventually prove to be more entertaining and certainly lively. Undoubtedly the worst perpetration with which fandom has all too recently been confronted is Claude Degler's asinine and imbecilic Cosmic Circle project, an organization which hitherto was lightly and nonchalantly scoffed at and then layed aside as being the feeble-minded idiotism of a more than half-demented egg-head. Degler has proven to be quite an irritant quality on the usually thick hide of fandom, however, and is consequently being given a sound and entirely rational and logical verbal thrashing, which he apparently chooses to be senselessly ignore. Poor us, who have stolidly and almost moronically stood for the maniacal ravings of political and religious and anti-religious fanatics for ten years, to be bothered by such an obviously empty-headed ass- But because of his continual warping and prostitution of the English language, and of science fiction in general, he has gradually grown to become an inhibited menace that should and must be halted, else he finally makes fools of us all through his incessant and indiscreet bellowings both to us and to those who know virtually nothing of science fiction's existence. Proposing we dispose of this hare-brained Cosmic Circle originator and addict is one thing, but actually doing it is another horse of startlingly different color. He is tumultously consistent, and it appears, worse luck, that nothing short of the destruction of the ripe old planet-pardon me, Degler moves in cosmic circles only-destruction of this ripe old universe will stop his fanaticism. The austere members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society appear to have done their level best to appease him and somewhat tone down his (next page)
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