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Voice of the Imagination, Denvention Special, 1941

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"I wish ude correct grammar, punctuation, and typerrors in this letter, i havent time.
"Latest VoMcomments: Cover: Moreyish, which is not good. Will take advantage of yr lithocover offer after Denvention.
"Thot: Twoud b o so nice if WD brot along his recorder and disct the Denvention for benefit of the unfortunate brethren that cant make it. If everybody there chipt in two or 4 bits it shoud cover the xpens shoudnt it? Ime thinking particularly of Charlie Tanner who is confined in a TB hospital and would be pickled tink to get a record like that. Hede also b glad to get fanzines & letters from u fans and fanshees. Adress him 'Branch Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio' (Daugherty has evry intention of discing the Denvention if he can come. Personal to Charlie Tanner: Helo felo! Hurry up & tell that old teebee to go sit on a Tumithank--silent "h"! Wanto see U back at the nextcon. --FandM)
"Jack Speer sure is gibring when he blabs of Dave McIlwraith---or was that yr slip, FandM? Seems like the latter coz u didnt comment as ude b almost sure to do if Juffus had come thru with a blunder like that. (McIlwraith dates back to a joke on p6 of Janumber.)
"Betcha I can hit as hi a note as Rodobo any day--- or nite either. 
"Betcha too, that I got more hair on my chest than Milty. Proving these bets at Denver is going to be interesting. (Alryt, U apes; but as for me, if each hair on my chest equald a promag, Amazing never woudve got beyond the first Volume! --Ackerman speaking.)
"If a 3 dimensional candl  has 2 ends a 4 dimensional candle should only have 3 ends. But there's no need of using dimensions. U can just keep slicing it in two and get as many ends as you want to burn. But that's being kinda mean to the ends. But this speculation is senseless. Where's it gonna getcha? in the end?
"Ide like to take a little space here to inform fans in general that I had nothing to do with the Singleton 'pseuicide'. I was fooled like everybody else. In fact, I was so stunned that I wouldn't have suspected a hoax or gone to MIT to investigate if I hadnt been urged to do so by Chauvenet. The reason I kept quiet after I did find out, was to see if we could determine if there was any reasonable explanation for his act. There doesn't seem to be any.
"Y does Rajocz try so hard to convince us that Iam Rushinoff is real? Gilty conscience, Ray?
"& after looking at Astra pubs ad, ime inclined to ask, 'Is Joquel real?'" (Like Daugherty & difrent others, Joquel started out simply as another seudonym for the 3 actifans in LA; but belief on the part of fandom--mass hypnotism--accumulated credence--call it what U will--caused Joquel to jell, to materialize, as it were. And this gelatinous gent is proving one the most popular flavors ever sent us from the Great Cosmic Resi4.)

D B. Thompson of 2302 You, Lincolnebr, 30 May 41: "I really shouldn't be writing this to you. My pile of unanswered correspondence runs back to May 2, which for me, is a long way back. But where would VOM bee (see June cover) if the subscribers didn't write?

"I hope to buy the July issue at the Mylhicon, but I still don't have transportation, my first ride having slipped off the assembly line when Lynn Bridges left Henry Ford and went to work for a steel company.
"After Esperanto in March, and Espameriko in April, look what Connerly did to us in May! I can almost read Esperanto, but the Connerlyngo stops me! I'm going to help Harry Warner, and root for Basic English, hereafter.
"Paule's Fantastiqueen, with butterfly wings for flying, webbed, three-fingered hands for swimming, and ordinary, five-toed feet, for walking, I suppose, is a nice addition to modern mythology. Nice hair-do she has, too.

"Perdue's letter entertaining, and Gallet's 'Escape From Paris' very good news.

"In June, 'Vomoswoth's' defense of Cap Future features the issue, along with Milty's Confessional. Hoffman's portrait of seven-wide (Shoe-business jargon for EEEE) is much appreciated, as is the Turbit."

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6 "I wish ude correct grammar, punctuation, and typerrors in this letter, i havent time. "Latest VoMcomments: Cover: Moreyish, which is not good. Will take advantage of yr lithocover offer after Denvention. "Thot: Twoud b o so nice if WD brot along his recorder and disct the Denvention for benefit of the unfortunate brethren that cant make it. If everybody there chipt in two or 4 bits it shoud cover the xpens shoudnt it? Ime thinking particularly of Charlie Tanner who is confined in a TB hospital and would be pickled tink to get a record like that. Hede also b glad to get fanzines & letters from u fans and fanshees. Adress him 'Branch Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio' (Daugherty has evry intention of discing the Denvention if he can come. Personal to Charlie Tanner: Helo felo! Hurry up & tell that old teebee to go sit on a Tumithank--silent "h"! Wanto see U back at the nextcon. --FandM) "Jack Speer sure is gibring when he blabs of Dave McIlwraith---or was that yr slip, FandM? Seems like the latter coz u didnt comment as ude b almost sure to do if Juffus had come thru with a blunder like that. (McIlwraith dates back to a joke on p6 of Janumber.) "Betcha I can hit as hi a note as Rodobo any day--- or nite either. "Betcha too, that I got more hair on my chest than Milty. Proving these bets at Denver is going to be interesting. (Alryt, U apes; but as for me, if each hair on my chest equald a promag, Amazing never woudve got beyond the first Volume! --Ackerman speaking.) "If a 3 dimensional candl has 2 ends a 4 dimensional candle should only have 3 ends. But there's no need of using dimensions. U can just keep slicing it in two and get as many ends as you want to burn. But that's being kinda mean to the ends. But this speculation is senseless. Where's it gonna getcha? in the end? "Ide like to take a little space here to inform fans in general that I had nothing to do with the Singleton 'pseuicide'. I was fooled like everybody else. In fact, I was so stunned that I wouldn't have suspected a hoax or gone to MIT to investigate if I hadnt been urged to do so by Chauvenet. The reason I kept quiet after I did find out, was to see if we could determine if there was any reasonable explanation for his act. There doesn't seem to be any. "Y does Rajocz try so hard to convince us that Iam Rushinoff is real? Gilty conscience, Ray? "& after looking at Astra pubs ad, ime inclined to ask, 'Is Joquel real?'" (Like Daugherty & difrent others, Joquel started out simply as another seudonym for the 3 actifans in LA; but belief on the part of fandom--mass hypnotism--accumulated credence--call it what U will--caused Joquel to jell, to materialize, as it were. And this gelatinous gent is proving one the most popular flavors ever sent us from the Great Cosmic Resi4.) D B. Thompson of 2302 You, Lincolnebr, 30 May 41: "I really shouldn't be writing this to you. My pile of unanswered correspondence runs back to May 2, which for me, is a long way back. But where would VOM bee (see June cover) if the subscribers didn't write? "I hope to buy the July issue at the Mylhicon, but I still don't have transportation, my first ride having slipped off the assembly line when Lynn Bridges left Henry Ford and went to work for a steel company. "After Esperanto in March, and Espameriko in April, look what Connerly did to us in May! I can almost read Esperanto, but the Connerlyngo stops me! I'm going to help Harry Warner, and root for Basic English, hereafter. "Paule's Fantastiqueen, with butterfly wings for flying, webbed, three-fingered hands for swimming, and ordinary, five-toed feet, for walking, I suppose, is a nice addition to modern mythology. Nice hair-do she has, too. "Perdue's letter entertaining, and Gallet's 'Escape From Paris' very good news. "In June, 'Vomoswoth's' defense of Cap Future features the issue, along with Milty's Confessional. Hoffman's portrait of seven-wide (Shoe-business jargon for EEEE) is much appreciated, as is the Turbit."