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Voice of the Imagination, Denvention Special, 1941
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12 which is stfandom, we don't stop to consider just what we're doing. '' We rush through prozines, so that it takes a super-plus story to register favorably. I read some hacks slowly, and enjoyed them. We rush through correspondence, become incoherent, use Ackermanese, fondly imaging we're alone in a pseudo-existence and only our fellow citizens can understand us--that it is part of our schizophrenail reactions to the escape-literature. (Why Says Science Fiction Is Escape Literate? bellows Milty.) I do; snarls Vomoswoth; it is an is also rush-reader's literature. '' Is this the science-fiction fan talking? NO--it is an intelligent person deprived of stf (but not cynical, see, Rothman) who realizes a few home truths. '' My position today is thus: I get 1 promag every month. I read it in a month. You read 22 magazines in a month. I read 6 yarns, slowly, and enjoy every one. The superyarns--THIRTEEN O'CLOCK, etc.--I roll in ecstasy when I read. You read the hacks, half way through drop them, and rush through a superyarn and conclude it's just average. Go on, scoff: but you'll never try it and see. Not when there are nice covers looking out from every newsstand, and you buy them as a matter of principle. The catch is this: in Australia, you can't buy them even if your will-power could resist them--principle, principal or gory prinspel! You'll say I'm cynical and resent being deprived of stf. Sure, I resent it. But I bear my resentment bravely, because it the long run, it will help pack the shells into the guns that are going to blast Hitler's bloody maniacs off the face of the Earth, and lend weight to the bayonet that will drive through slimy Adolf's guts. '' Propaganda, Miske will sneer. Yeah, propaganda--a word which applies to an elderly lady-friend's two sons, one of whom came home blinded for life, the other minus both legs, an invalid. Now, sneer, blast you. '' Calm yourself, Vomoswoth: this will be printed in America. Americans, who like the Australians of last year, still believe that it can't happen here. Good fellows, chums, but never the less ignorant and bewildered. '' I won't risk censorship and tell you a few truths. Ted Carnell's letter produces a cry of "how did that get through the c's?" The answer is: because it's tame. Tame to what's really happening. '' There was a young chap I knew who read science fiction. He lives in Redfern; but now he resides permanently somewhere in the Channel with a Spitfire twisted round his neck. He won't read science fiction any more. '' I won't go on. As I was saying, I get 1 promag once a month. The reading takes 1 month. Thus I have plenty of time to study other things and watch my job. Is there a fellow named Ackerman, who they call No. 1 fan, who lost his job? Or it is a rumor? Or am I wrong after all. (Ackerman very voluntarily & profoundly proudly quit his job. The authority for that statement being --Ackerman.) -- It seems that 3-4 will equal a balanced output until the accumulator runs down, but 3-3 will never cease to be balanced. Take it easy stfans--supermen, certainly but have you ever seen a radio-valve blow when too heavy a drain is put in the circuit? Or a dynamo grind out--flicker, cut out--when a too heavy load is imposed. For a while it runs nicely then--flicker--BANG. And someone in Science Fiction Fan--or was it the Alchemist?--asks why Richard E. Howard and other committed suicide and men like Lovecraft and Weinbaum died young..." Elarcy sez: "I liked the stuff in #15 VOM. Being too virtuous to scintillate tonight, I'll not try to crash your Denver issue. [Printed diagonally in all capitals: Louis Russell Chauvenet. Signed horizontally across each name: Louis Russell Chauvenet.] (one signature you'll never reproduce in Vom!)"
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12 which is stfandom, we don't stop to consider just what we're doing. '' We rush through prozines, so that it takes a super-plus story to register favorably. I read some hacks slowly, and enjoyed them. We rush through correspondence, become incoherent, use Ackermanese, fondly imaging we're alone in a pseudo-existence and only our fellow citizens can understand us--that it is part of our schizophrenail reactions to the escape-literature. (Why Says Science Fiction Is Escape Literate? bellows Milty.) I do; snarls Vomoswoth; it is an is also rush-reader's literature. '' Is this the science-fiction fan talking? NO--it is an intelligent person deprived of stf (but not cynical, see, Rothman) who realizes a few home truths. '' My position today is thus: I get 1 promag every month. I read it in a month. You read 22 magazines in a month. I read 6 yarns, slowly, and enjoy every one. The superyarns--THIRTEEN O'CLOCK, etc.--I roll in ecstasy when I read. You read the hacks, half way through drop them, and rush through a superyarn and conclude it's just average. Go on, scoff: but you'll never try it and see. Not when there are nice covers looking out from every newsstand, and you buy them as a matter of principle. The catch is this: in Australia, you can't buy them even if your will-power could resist them--principle, principal or gory prinspel! You'll say I'm cynical and resent being deprived of stf. Sure, I resent it. But I bear my resentment bravely, because it the long run, it will help pack the shells into the guns that are going to blast Hitler's bloody maniacs off the face of the Earth, and lend weight to the bayonet that will drive through slimy Adolf's guts. '' Propaganda, Miske will sneer. Yeah, propaganda--a word which applies to an elderly lady-friend's two sons, one of whom came home blinded for life, the other minus both legs, an invalid. Now, sneer, blast you. '' Calm yourself, Vomoswoth: this will be printed in America. Americans, who like the Australians of last year, still believe that it can't happen here. Good fellows, chums, but never the less ignorant and bewildered. '' I won't risk censorship and tell you a few truths. Ted Carnell's letter produces a cry of "how did that get through the c's?" The answer is: because it's tame. Tame to what's really happening. '' There was a young chap I knew who read science fiction. He lives in Redfern; but now he resides permanently somewhere in the Channel with a Spitfire twisted round his neck. He won't read science fiction any more. '' I won't go on. As I was saying, I get 1 promag once a month. The reading takes 1 month. Thus I have plenty of time to study other things and watch my job. Is there a fellow named Ackerman, who they call No. 1 fan, who lost his job? Or it is a rumor? Or am I wrong after all. (Ackerman very voluntarily & profoundly proudly quit his job. The authority for that statement being --Ackerman.) -- It seems that 3-4 will equal a balanced output until the accumulator runs down, but 3-3 will never cease to be balanced. Take it easy stfans--supermen, certainly but have you ever seen a radio-valve blow when too heavy a drain is put in the circuit? Or a dynamo grind out--flicker, cut out--when a too heavy load is imposed. For a while it runs nicely then--flicker--BANG. And someone in Science Fiction Fan--or was it the Alchemist?--asks why Richard E. Howard and other committed suicide and men like Lovecraft and Weinbaum died young..." Elarcy sez: "I liked the stuff in #15 VOM. Being too virtuous to scintillate tonight, I'll not try to crash your Denver issue. [Printed diagonally in all capitals: Louis Russell Chauvenet. Signed horizontally across each name: Louis Russell Chauvenet.] (one signature you'll never reproduce in Vom!)"
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