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Spacewarp, v. 5, issue 4, whole no. 28, July 1949

Page 21

P.S. to James W. Boll..... Write a stf story around Toynbee? No sane stf writer would touch that Christian balderdash with a ten-foot pole. Shaverism and racial memory were about as far off the deep end as stf men care to go. NO NO NOT TOYNBEE, to put it simply.

((Sounds almost like Singer at times, doesn't he? Seems we had another letter around here somewhere...oh, yeh)):

Dear Art,
Maybe what you need to save your subscription rate is to cultivate a freak. Remember how out-of-state people used to think of the MSFS as "the club with Ben Singer in it?" If you can play this Roscoe thing in a smartoid way, maybe said beaver will replace Ben as the most popular monster in fandom.

Is there any female beavers in your sect? ((Well natch. What would sects be without shemales? And don't answer: "The LASFS."))

Did Hal Shapiro write the STF BROAD this time? That "Look into my eyes" stuff sounds like Hal at the going away party for Ben Singer at which Ben did not go away, and you did not come.

Speaking of stf broads, have you met Virginia Beebe? If so, is she married, and what are her statistics and measurements? How would you know? How would I know how you would know? ((We refuse to answer on the grounds that we might incriminate ourselves))

Ahh, "The Master." Give Stewie for me a big kiss.

Boggs rolls ponderously over the usual numbers of toss again. I can forgive that bastard everything but his lousy infalability.

Roscoism should go places. I don't know where, tho. Mira should be far enough.

Why don't you drop that editorial "we"? It sounds silly in a fanzine. I know that, barring beavers, muskrats, and plit personalities, there is only (Thank "God") one of you. (Quotes are to show that I'm an atheist.) ((Since when? Seems you and Singer were fighting in UNIVERSE and MUTANT on atheism)) It looks to me like a tangential semantic dodge for editors so that they can outnumber individual readers and perpetuate their totalitarian rule of the Herd.

[[illustration text]]

NOW, WE..(ME AND MY FRIEND THERE,) VOTE THAT YOU ARE ALL WRONG

MATTER TRANSMITTER

MATTER RECEIVER

THE "WE DODGE"

MR. FAN      (21)

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P.S. to James W. Boll..... Write a stf story around Toynbee? No sane stf writer would touch that Christian balderdash with a ten-foot pole. Shaverism and racial memory were about as far off the deep end as stf men care to go. NO NO NOT TOYNBEE, to put it simply. ((Sounds almost like Singer at times, doesn't he? Seems we had another letter around here somewhere...oh, yeh)): Dear Art, Maybe what you need to save your subscription rate is to cultivate a freak. Remember how out-of-state people used to think of the MSFS as "the club with Ben Singer in it?" If you can play this Roscoe thing in a smartoid way, maybe said beaver will replace Ben as the most popular monster in fandom. Is there any female beavers in your sect? ((Well natch. What would sects be without shemales? And don't answer: "The LASFS.")) Did Hal Shapiro write the STF BROAD this time? That "Look into my eyes" stuff sounds like Hal at the going away party for Ben Singer at which Ben did not go away, and you did not come. Speaking of stf broads, have you met Virginia Beebe? If so, is she married, and what are her statistics and measurements? How would you know? How would I know how you would know? ((We refuse to answer on the grounds that we might incriminate ourselves)) Ahh, "The Master." Give Stewie for me a big kiss. Boggs rolls ponderously over the usual numbers of toss again. I can forgive that bastard everything but his lousy infalability. Roscoism should go places. I don't know where, tho. Mira should be far enough. Why don't you drop that editorial "we"? It sounds silly in a fanzine. I know that, barring beavers, muskrats, and plit personalities, there is only (Thank "God") one of you. (Quotes are to show that I'm an atheist.) ((Since when? Seems you and Singer were fighting in UNIVERSE and MUTANT on atheism)) It looks to me like a tangential semantic dodge for editors so that they can outnumber individual readers and perpetuate their totalitarian rule of the Herd. [[illustration text]] NOW, WE..(ME AND MY FRIEND THERE,) VOTE THAT YOU ARE ALL WRONG MATTER TRANSMITTER MATTER RECEIVER THE "WE DODGE" MR. FAN (21)