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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 4, Summer 1945

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'' Okay, Chauvenet, ol' man. You laid 25 cents on the counter -- so what? DAWN will definitely be out before 1950 as that is the date I am to take the space-jaunt Tucker predicted. In fact, it'll be out Denvention time. Happier now? We announced it last summer, and bring it out this summer. It's annual you know. '' Singleton letters in good taste re presentation. '' Well, well, well (no cracks about wisdom 4SJ) ... I have been complimented at long last. Vol, my good friend, you tickle the hackles of my heart. Your letter dims my age-worn eyes (18 years April 2) with tears of joy -- out of the dark pops a fellow who liked your magazine; even compliments it in another Fm. That is sheer ecstasy! I'm wurra sorra that no can comply with ye Merky -- the future looked too damned murky. '' As to Thompson -- I yam disgustipated wit' 'im 'cause he crashed the pros before me; THEN MADE ME LIKE HIS STORY! Dave McIlwain ...buzzz...cqcqvq...@$#%#%....splrfssskyputschky. I should've paid more attention to Esperanto, but had enough time mastering English, French, Canuk, Spanish, Wabbit talk and Wabbit tawk with a southuhn dwawl. '' Special Delivery rates a negative reaction with me. Yerke rates a sun-burned, wormy walnut. You, Forry, rate a sock in the puss and a kiss at the same time. Your column is neat, but we hate to lose the thing. '' Gee, it's been hard to hold back that Daugherty news! (To...those who got in late: Our popular editor of Shangri-LA will have a double honeymoon--Deimos & Phobos--in June when he marrys local Stephanie 'LN-or' O'Brien, alias 'Dejah Thoris', adopted sis of Thoris Jai.) I figured that you would get the scoop on it, though. Who is the fan author you mention as emanating from around Berkeley. Wakefield? Francis? Bernal? Who? (Carl Berke, addresse unbekannt, says editor of Specula.) '' Sleeper doesn't mind skinning the fans, does she? Wow! 'Hymn to Satan' was -- well -- I don't know whether to say I like it or not. Concentration draws forth a feeling of revulsion for both the work and the master. '' I'd like to see the Smith ms. Bruce."

Ted Cornell with clips from a 5 pg letter transatlanticlipperd over on 27 Jan from 17 Burwash Rd, Plumstead SE18, London, England. "Well, I am at home once again. I was granted seven days leave a few days back. Rushed Londonward as fast as transport would carry me. Flew into the bosom of my family, went to bed, and have been there ever since! I do wish that you would curb your racing thoughts a little and wait for an explanation. It must have been the stench from the city that knocked me out, but, I just keeled over with an overdose of 'flu, and here I be, with a temp chart like a new magazine sales graph. '' The copy of STARDUST...revealed much about Forry that I did not know. AH, h'm. You don't drink, dance, smoke, swear, gamble or attend church. At least, pal, we have one thing in common -- I don't go to church either! '' Latest, to hand, ish of IMAGINATION #11, just about stands all the other earlier issues on their respective ears for quality. Oh, oh, yes, I nearly forgot to tell you. Issue No. 10 hasn't reached me, so I can but presume that it has turned into shark-bait along with the December issue of ASTOUNDING. Can you possibly find me a copy of both those top-notchers? '' Will you please thank Morojo for her mag THE DAMN THING (spoken all in one breath I guess it sounds just the way she wants it to be remembered!), and also for the New Year Card. I'm feeling pretty good, despite a 102 temp, with the small flood of Xmas Greetings that have just reached here. Most of them were mailed in USA on or about Dec 23, but, those who popped 'em forgot to send 'em via Time-Line, Inc., '' At this precise moment (next to last para, pg 4) Irene is busy reading Bob Tucker's 'Le Zombie' double ish No. 32-33, and chuckling heartily over the great Pong's humor, and now she wants to know what Joe Gilbert meant when he said his greatest ambition was to trap Forry in his den and show him his collection of 'Doc Savage' mags. She says wouldn't you rather see his operation? '' I see that I credited this mag (The Damn Thing) to Morojo, instead it should be Bruce Yerke. Pawdon. Then thank the sweet gal for 'Voice of the Imagination'. I guess Forry doesn't do all the work on the mag -- and say, here's SHANGRI-LA, second issue. Not quite so full of material as the first one was, or does my memory fail me somewhat after all the Army drilling, shouting and rifle chucking. (Guess memory failed, Ted: 2d ish has 6 more pgs than 1st.) But, nevertheless, a might smart and interesting number. I never can get round to criticising a fanmag, mainly because I get such a great amount of enjoyment out of most of them. And I never criticise my pleasures. It's a bad policy, as far as fanmags go, because it isn't being very helpful to either the editor or the con-

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10 '' Okay, Chauvenet, ol' man. You laid 25 cents on the counter -- so what? DAWN will definitely be out before 1950 as that is the date I am to take the space-jaunt Tucker predicted. In fact, it'll be out Denvention time. Happier now? We announced it last summer, and bring it out this summer. It's annual you know. '' Singleton letters in good taste re presentation. '' Well, well, well (no cracks about wisdom 4SJ) ... I have been complimented at long last. Vol, my good friend, you tickle the hackles of my heart. Your letter dims my age-worn eyes (18 years April 2) with tears of joy -- out of the dark pops a fellow who liked your magazine; even compliments it in another Fm. That is sheer ecstasy! I'm wurra sorra that no can comply with ye Merky -- the future looked too damned murky. '' As to Thompson -- I yam disgustipated wit' 'im 'cause he crashed the pros before me; THEN MADE ME LIKE HIS STORY! Dave McIlwain ...buzzz...cqcqvq...@$#%#%....splrfssskyputschky. I should've paid more attention to Esperanto, but had enough time mastering English, French, Canuk, Spanish, Wabbit talk and Wabbit tawk with a southuhn dwawl. '' Special Delivery rates a negative reaction with me. Yerke rates a sun-burned, wormy walnut. You, Forry, rate a sock in the puss and a kiss at the same time. Your column is neat, but we hate to lose the thing. '' Gee, it's been hard to hold back that Daugherty news! (To...those who got in late: Our popular editor of Shangri-LA will have a double honeymoon--Deimos & Phobos--in June when he marrys local Stephanie 'LN-or' O'Brien, alias 'Dejah Thoris', adopted sis of Thoris Jai.) I figured that you would get the scoop on it, though. Who is the fan author you mention as emanating from around Berkeley. Wakefield? Francis? Bernal? Who? (Carl Berke, addresse unbekannt, says editor of Specula.) '' Sleeper doesn't mind skinning the fans, does she? Wow! 'Hymn to Satan' was -- well -- I don't know whether to say I like it or not. Concentration draws forth a feeling of revulsion for both the work and the master. '' I'd like to see the Smith ms. Bruce." Ted Cornell with clips from a 5 pg letter transatlanticlipperd over on 27 Jan from 17 Burwash Rd, Plumstead SE18, London, England. "Well, I am at home once again. I was granted seven days leave a few days back. Rushed Londonward as fast as transport would carry me. Flew into the bosom of my family, went to bed, and have been there ever since! I do wish that you would curb your racing thoughts a little and wait for an explanation. It must have been the stench from the city that knocked me out, but, I just keeled over with an overdose of 'flu, and here I be, with a temp chart like a new magazine sales graph. '' The copy of STARDUST...revealed much about Forry that I did not know. AH, h'm. You don't drink, dance, smoke, swear, gamble or attend church. At least, pal, we have one thing in common -- I don't go to church either! '' Latest, to hand, ish of IMAGINATION #11, just about stands all the other earlier issues on their respective ears for quality. Oh, oh, yes, I nearly forgot to tell you. Issue No. 10 hasn't reached me, so I can but presume that it has turned into shark-bait along with the December issue of ASTOUNDING. Can you possibly find me a copy of both those top-notchers? '' Will you please thank Morojo for her mag THE DAMN THING (spoken all in one breath I guess it sounds just the way she wants it to be remembered!), and also for the New Year Card. I'm feeling pretty good, despite a 102 temp, with the small flood of Xmas Greetings that have just reached here. Most of them were mailed in USA on or about Dec 23, but, those who popped 'em forgot to send 'em via Time-Line, Inc., '' At this precise moment (next to last para, pg 4) Irene is busy reading Bob Tucker's 'Le Zombie' double ish No. 32-33, and chuckling heartily over the great Pong's humor, and now she wants to know what Joe Gilbert meant when he said his greatest ambition was to trap Forry in his den and show him his collection of 'Doc Savage' mags. She says wouldn't you rather see his operation? '' I see that I credited this mag (The Damn Thing) to Morojo, instead it should be Bruce Yerke. Pawdon. Then thank the sweet gal for 'Voice of the Imagination'. I guess Forry doesn't do all the work on the mag -- and say, here's SHANGRI-LA, second issue. Not quite so full of material as the first one was, or does my memory fail me somewhat after all the Army drilling, shouting and rifle chucking. (Guess memory failed, Ted: 2d ish has 6 more pgs than 1st.) But, nevertheless, a might smart and interesting number. I never can get round to criticising a fanmag, mainly because I get such a great amount of enjoyment out of most of them. And I never criticise my pleasures. It's a bad policy, as far as fanmags go, because it isn't being very helpful to either the editor or the con-