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Shangri-la, issue 6, May-June 1946

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As I type this on the stencil, composing as I go, the clubroom  is a bedlam. Evans is mimeographing. Four stencils are being cut simultaneously; on four different typewriters, since you ask. Cox is having the most trouble. "Let me use the new typewriter you just bought, Hart. I've made the same mistake four times." No answer from Hart. Ackerman is no help, either. "Don't be a goldfish, Cox. That is, don't be a sub-goldfish. Even a goldfish stops making the error of bumping his nose on the bowl after the first mistake or so."
Daugherty has just handed me the stack of covers. They came out fairly well from Pederson's drawn-directly-onto-the-plate original.
Some news that you won't read in "Fantasy-Times": The Spr. 1948 issue of THE PACIFIC SPECTATOR is interesting. Fletcher Pratt, old-time stf author, has an article called "From the Fairy Tale of Science to the Science of Fairy Tale." Professor Inez Thrift has one called "Late Learner Among the Mathematicians."  She has been writing a series of satires on the specialists, concentrating on the psychologists as they reveal themselves in their learned journals. Now, she tries to listen in on the mathematicians through the same medium, only to find them quite unintelligible. However, she remembers that, unlike other specialists, the mathematicians have been trying to communicate with us for years thru their mathematics-for-the-many books. So she turns to them. "Late Learner" indicates how much the math boys are able to communicate to a person like her. Professor J. Miles has a long article on poetry. She gives half a page to mentioning ICHOR and in quoting a Hart poem from the first issue. THE PACIFIC SPECTATOR is not recommended to you for commercial purposes. Printed on book paper by Stanford Univ. Press, and costing a buck a throw, you had best look it up at your library, if you want to read it, by some chance.
More editorial observations will be found in the letter section.----Dale Hart, who may be the late editor, ere long.
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COLLECTOR'S ITEM: #2 of a Series, by Ye Ed
LEAVES. Pub. by R.H. Barlow. Two issuess, 8-1/2x11, 1937 and 1939, respectively. 100 copies of #1; only 60 of #2 placed on sale. 35¢ for #1; 50¢ for #2. 80 & 66 mimeod pages, not counting ft. & bk. covers. Stories, poems, articles, and fragments by Clark Ashton Smith, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Samuel Loveman, Fritz Leiber, Jr., Abraham Merritt, C.L. Moore, Donald Wandrei, R.E. Howard, William Beckford, August Derleth. V.T. Orton, Arthur Goodenough, Edith Miniter, E. Toldridge, H.D. Spoerl, Francis Flagg, F.B.Long, Jr., J. Lindley, Henry S. Whitehead, R.H.  Barlow, and a few others. --- Legibly mimeographed. Content is highly interesting, of course. Is still possible to get a set of LEAVES for about three dollars, if the collector will exercise a little patience and institute a small search.//Selah.
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As I type this on the stencil, composing as I go, the clubroom is a bedlam. Evans is mimeographing. Four stencils are being cut simultaneously; on four different typewriters, since you ask. Cox is having the most trouble. "Let me use the new typewriter you just bought, Hart. I've made the same mistake four times." No answer from Hart. Ackerman is no help, either. "Don't be a goldfish, Cox. That is, don't be a sub-goldfish. Even a goldfish stops making the error of bumping his nose on the bowl after the first mistake or so." Daugherty has just handed me the stack of covers. They came out fairly well from Pederson's drawn-directly-onto-the-plate original. Some news that you won't read in "Fantasy-Times": The Spr. 1948 issue of THE PACIFIC SPECTATOR is interesting. Fletcher Pratt, old-time stf author, has an article called "From the Fairy Tale of Science to the Science of Fairy Tale." Professor Inez Thrift has one called "Late Learner Among the Mathematicians." She has been writing a series of satires on the specialists, concentrating on the psychologists as they reveal themselves in their learned journals. Now, she tries to listen in on the mathematicians through the same medium, only to find them quite unintelligible. However, she remembers that, unlike other specialists, the mathematicians have been trying to communicate with us for years thru their mathematics-for-the-many books. So she turns to them. "Late Learner" indicates how much the math boys are able to communicate to a person like her. Professor J. Miles has a long article on poetry. She gives half a page to mentioning ICHOR and in quoting a Hart poem from the first issue. THE PACIFIC SPECTATOR is not recommended to you for commercial purposes. Printed on book paper by Stanford Univ. Press, and costing a buck a throw, you had best look it up at your library, if you want to read it, by some chance. More editorial observations will be found in the letter section.----Dale Hart, who may be the late editor, ere long. ***** COLLECTOR'S ITEM: #2 of a Series, by Ye Ed LEAVES. Pub. by R.H. Barlow. Two issuess, 8-1/2x11, 1937 and 1939, respectively. 100 copies of #1; only 60 of #2 placed on sale. 35¢ for #1; 50¢ for #2. 80 & 66 mimeod pages, not counting ft. & bk. covers. Stories, poems, articles, and fragments by Clark Ashton Smith, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Samuel Loveman, Fritz Leiber, Jr., Abraham Merritt, C.L. Moore, Donald Wandrei, R.E. Howard, William Beckford, August Derleth. V.T. Orton, Arthur Goodenough, Edith Miniter, E. Toldridge, H.D. Spoerl, Francis Flagg, F.B.Long, Jr., J. Lindley, Henry S. Whitehead, R.H. Barlow, and a few others. --- Legibly mimeographed. Content is highly interesting, of course. Is still possible to get a set of LEAVES for about three dollars, if the collector will exercise a little patience and institute a small search.//Selah. (2)