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Le Zombie, whole no. 44, November-December 1941
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9 LE Z LETTERS DEPT. educating fandom LeRoy Tackett: I have, according to my figures, been reading stf one year and a half. I've read letter sections, fanzines, etc. and now I open this big mouth of mine and yell in protest. You big name fans talk about stuff like "Yngvi is a louse." So I say ... who in hell is Yngvi? And why is he a louse? Will somebody please tell me who or what is Yngvi, and why is he, or it, a louse? (*) Another thing: while calmly sitting in my favorite chair I happened to notice smokes and sounds of battle coming from the stf mag on the table. I cautiously creep over to see what's cooking, but some creature leaps up from the letter sectoon yelling "SFTPACOBEMOTCOSFM!" Seeing that I am a stranger, they explain tht they are representitives of the societies for and against bug-eyed monsters. This brings up more questions: who started this alphabetical drivel and why wasn't he shot? (I) While I'm at it, I might as well join in a cry I've heard often repeated. Why don't you super-active fans stop your damned feuding and get united in one organization? (*) The accounts of the Denvention are swell and so was the September cover. Keep up the good work but for the sake of the new fans start explaining things." -Fountain, Colorado. (*) Lez sez: To our mind, and to appease critics who say VoM serves no worthy purpose, we believe this letter should have been in VoM. And all letters like it. Meanwhile, to arms: LeRoy will find the answer to the Yngvi problem in the May 1940 Unknown. About these alphabet socities. It seems that in 1935 some fan whose identify is now lost to history started the first one .. an organization for removing wire staples from mags. Other societies have been in print ever since. Could the original scoundrel be found, he doubtless would be shot. As for super-active fans and their feuding ... hasn't this problem already become a thing of the past? Altho you should no more expect everyone to lay down arms and sleep together in fandom than in the world at large. That would be Utopia, and Utopia hasn't a chance in our present-day world. To close, we should explain that VoM is an all-letter fanzine published at Box 6475, Met. Station, Los Angeles. Edw. Conner: "Oct, 41 ish best of LeZ I've seen yet. But please don't get so far behind that you have to skip half a dozen issues! Your idea of quality over quantity exclnt, isn't it? However it remains to be seen whether you can keep up the suberb work and still get the next issues of LeZ out on time. You must have done extra work on the last couple. (*) Is one of those improvements you hinted at the acknowledging of all letters you receive whether you print them or not? ((no.)) Or is that "advertising" section the so-called iprovement? ((no.)) The Pong "interview" was by far the best item in #43. The cover was the best. It was super. (*) In regards to a remark in my last letter as to why I love LeZ: what I mean is, you write most of the stuff yourself ... it is different, unique, refreshing. Of course, you must remember that I've read only 3 issues of LeZ. There may be a higher percentage of material by other fans in what I haven't seen. (*) What is this "assorted services" business I've been reading so much about?" -Peoria. LeZ sez: "Services" is a business organization run by Ackerman that do little things like making photo-litho covers for fanzines and walkin dogs for pampered poodle owners. "improvement" mentioned last issue was something approaching even right-hand margins. Hadn't you noticed?
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9 LE Z LETTERS DEPT. educating fandom LeRoy Tackett: I have, according to my figures, been reading stf one year and a half. I've read letter sections, fanzines, etc. and now I open this big mouth of mine and yell in protest. You big name fans talk about stuff like "Yngvi is a louse." So I say ... who in hell is Yngvi? And why is he a louse? Will somebody please tell me who or what is Yngvi, and why is he, or it, a louse? (*) Another thing: while calmly sitting in my favorite chair I happened to notice smokes and sounds of battle coming from the stf mag on the table. I cautiously creep over to see what's cooking, but some creature leaps up from the letter sectoon yelling "SFTPACOBEMOTCOSFM!" Seeing that I am a stranger, they explain tht they are representitives of the societies for and against bug-eyed monsters. This brings up more questions: who started this alphabetical drivel and why wasn't he shot? (I) While I'm at it, I might as well join in a cry I've heard often repeated. Why don't you super-active fans stop your damned feuding and get united in one organization? (*) The accounts of the Denvention are swell and so was the September cover. Keep up the good work but for the sake of the new fans start explaining things." -Fountain, Colorado. (*) Lez sez: To our mind, and to appease critics who say VoM serves no worthy purpose, we believe this letter should have been in VoM. And all letters like it. Meanwhile, to arms: LeRoy will find the answer to the Yngvi problem in the May 1940 Unknown. About these alphabet socities. It seems that in 1935 some fan whose identify is now lost to history started the first one .. an organization for removing wire staples from mags. Other societies have been in print ever since. Could the original scoundrel be found, he doubtless would be shot. As for super-active fans and their feuding ... hasn't this problem already become a thing of the past? Altho you should no more expect everyone to lay down arms and sleep together in fandom than in the world at large. That would be Utopia, and Utopia hasn't a chance in our present-day world. To close, we should explain that VoM is an all-letter fanzine published at Box 6475, Met. Station, Los Angeles. Edw. Conner: "Oct, 41 ish best of LeZ I've seen yet. But please don't get so far behind that you have to skip half a dozen issues! Your idea of quality over quantity exclnt, isn't it? However it remains to be seen whether you can keep up the suberb work and still get the next issues of LeZ out on time. You must have done extra work on the last couple. (*) Is one of those improvements you hinted at the acknowledging of all letters you receive whether you print them or not? ((no.)) Or is that "advertising" section the so-called iprovement? ((no.)) The Pong "interview" was by far the best item in #43. The cover was the best. It was super. (*) In regards to a remark in my last letter as to why I love LeZ: what I mean is, you write most of the stuff yourself ... it is different, unique, refreshing. Of course, you must remember that I've read only 3 issues of LeZ. There may be a higher percentage of material by other fans in what I haven't seen. (*) What is this "assorted services" business I've been reading so much about?" -Peoria. LeZ sez: "Services" is a business organization run by Ackerman that do little things like making photo-litho covers for fanzines and walkin dogs for pampered poodle owners. "improvement" mentioned last issue was something approaching even right-hand margins. Hadn't you noticed?
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