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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 4, December 1941
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From The Passenger Lounge SOUTHERN STAR Page 39 slightly in error on what I think the next convention should be called. I said and say "Laocoon". ((I don't get it. JG)). At the present time, I think SOUTHERN STAR superior to SPACE-WAYS. And that warrants congratulations, Joe. It's a real fanzine. And believe me there are damn few. You could count the number of real [[underline]]stf[[end underline]] fan mags on the fingers of one hand. --[[underline]]DONALD A. WOLLHEIM[[end underline]] SOME LIKE IT HOT ---- "Life Everlasting" is a considerably more interesting and intelligent debate than the previous one of this sort. From a pragmatic standpoint, tho, I doubt the use of a debate on life everlasting which assumes that the person cannot be killed, even when he wants to commit suicide. But taking the discussion as concerning a lengthening of an individual's lifespan to thousands of years, you have something more interesting into which your teeth to sink. I think you have "Pro" and "Con" misplaced on this, but assuming that Fischer is Pro, he makes several mistakes. One is in blithely saying that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a human brain can absorb. The convolutions of the brain that we see in pictures are fixed from birth; the actual structural changes which are memory are microscopic, consisting supposedly of minute decreasings of synaptic gaps between the axon of one neurone and a dendrite of another, or perhaps dendrites of others. I guess I was wrong about Fischer being Pro; I was thinking that the "friend" referred to by Pro was Fenton, and the writer was Fischer himself. Con has built a somewhat better case than Pro, but I think that minor alterations can be made in the proposition under debate which will take it around Con's objections. ...Lowndes' New York Column has a good deal of enjoyable stuff in it; as usual, he shines on humor. Accounts of the 1:00 Denvention business meeting, and, in the previous issue, "The game centers around the question: Which Futurian wrote what in Movie Love Stories?" are beautiful. ...[[underline]Schumann's parody on --- is it Dorothy Parker? -- is wonderful.[[end underline]]. He kinda wanders off the subject toward the last, but that's nothing to shoot him about. ((Underscoring in the above and following letters are my own, and intended to demonstrate one example why fan editors go around swinging from chandeliers under the quaint impression that they're Mohammed suspended in awful majesty in his tomb between Heaven and earth. Query to conjunctive[[?]] jugglers Ackerman and Speer: do you term typewritten underscoring which is [[underline]]not[[end underline]] to be set up in print, italics? JG)). (Washington) --[[underline]]JACK SPEER[[end underline]] Is it my fault that cheese business has kept me in North Carolina for lo, these many moons? Echo answers, No Suh! and Echo, except when riding my uncle's horse, never lies. Volume I, number 3, of Ouah Stah received in good condition and contents noted. Myself, I don't like the damn thing. Too much stuff by fellows that are smarter than I am. But I'll mention three things I thought good: (1) your honor's superlative ending of the letter section; (2) Fred Fischer's dept.; (3) the doggerel entitled "I Like Space Pirate Stories". I should have said thta I liked five items, including Tucker and the Panorama. Everything I've seen by Tucker strikes my fancy; and the Munsey articles fill me with pleasure for the reason that they represent some of the few occasions in my life when I did some real digging! ...But the important point is whether the fans want them. Regarding your honor's editing such care and restraint would go
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From The Passenger Lounge SOUTHERN STAR Page 39 slightly in error on what I think the next convention should be called. I said and say "Laocoon". ((I don't get it. JG)). At the present time, I think SOUTHERN STAR superior to SPACE-WAYS. And that warrants congratulations, Joe. It's a real fanzine. And believe me there are damn few. You could count the number of real [[underline]]stf[[end underline]] fan mags on the fingers of one hand. --[[underline]]DONALD A. WOLLHEIM[[end underline]] SOME LIKE IT HOT ---- "Life Everlasting" is a considerably more interesting and intelligent debate than the previous one of this sort. From a pragmatic standpoint, tho, I doubt the use of a debate on life everlasting which assumes that the person cannot be killed, even when he wants to commit suicide. But taking the discussion as concerning a lengthening of an individual's lifespan to thousands of years, you have something more interesting into which your teeth to sink. I think you have "Pro" and "Con" misplaced on this, but assuming that Fischer is Pro, he makes several mistakes. One is in blithely saying that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a human brain can absorb. The convolutions of the brain that we see in pictures are fixed from birth; the actual structural changes which are memory are microscopic, consisting supposedly of minute decreasings of synaptic gaps between the axon of one neurone and a dendrite of another, or perhaps dendrites of others. I guess I was wrong about Fischer being Pro; I was thinking that the "friend" referred to by Pro was Fenton, and the writer was Fischer himself. Con has built a somewhat better case than Pro, but I think that minor alterations can be made in the proposition under debate which will take it around Con's objections. ...Lowndes' New York Column has a good deal of enjoyable stuff in it; as usual, he shines on humor. Accounts of the 1:00 Denvention business meeting, and, in the previous issue, "The game centers around the question: Which Futurian wrote what in Movie Love Stories?" are beautiful. ...[[underline]Schumann's parody on --- is it Dorothy Parker? -- is wonderful.[[end underline]]. He kinda wanders off the subject toward the last, but that's nothing to shoot him about. ((Underscoring in the above and following letters are my own, and intended to demonstrate one example why fan editors go around swinging from chandeliers under the quaint impression that they're Mohammed suspended in awful majesty in his tomb between Heaven and earth. Query to conjunctive[[?]] jugglers Ackerman and Speer: do you term typewritten underscoring which is [[underline]]not[[end underline]] to be set up in print, italics? JG)). (Washington) --[[underline]]JACK SPEER[[end underline]] Is it my fault that cheese business has kept me in North Carolina for lo, these many moons? Echo answers, No Suh! and Echo, except when riding my uncle's horse, never lies. Volume I, number 3, of Ouah Stah received in good condition and contents noted. Myself, I don't like the damn thing. Too much stuff by fellows that are smarter than I am. But I'll mention three things I thought good: (1) your honor's superlative ending of the letter section; (2) Fred Fischer's dept.; (3) the doggerel entitled "I Like Space Pirate Stories". I should have said thta I liked five items, including Tucker and the Panorama. Everything I've seen by Tucker strikes my fancy; and the Munsey articles fill me with pleasure for the reason that they represent some of the few occasions in my life when I did some real digging! ...But the important point is whether the fans want them. Regarding your honor's editing such care and restraint would go
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