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Voice of the Imagination (VOM), v. 1, issue 1, whole no. 1, January 1939
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FORWARD At terrific expense (tuppence) we have persuaded the highest priced & consequently most sought-after spiritualist in the world to-day, Chaschach of Abracadabrania, to pierce beyond the veil to to the un-known world where the strange personality which was known as "Madge" now dwells. This place, due to the controversial nature of the case, proved to b...purgatory! It seems Satan woudnt have her & the angels r afraid she'd want to clip their wings so they coudnt continue to fly a-long the "Crooked Skyway" (which really clever readers will recognize as the heavenly counterpart of the "Crooked Road"). Consequintly, as Dr Dafoe would say, Madge, as the Piglatins woud say, is in on ellhay of an ixfay--woudnt U say? However...asking your indulgence, consider-ing the circumstances, she has condescended to respond to such remarks as suggest responses to her, which she will attempt to ansr in her old, accustomd manner. (In presenting letters, we omit, in this instance, due to time-limitations, the slow process of careful stencil-tracing of signatures--signatures, that is, with which we feel the majority of I-MAGINATION!'S followers woud b familiar.) In securing Madge's pithy parentheticomments, we wish to express our gratitude to the Cutner Cut-rate Occult Supply Co. for a special made-to-order "simplifyd spelng" jiu-jitsu board. (Er--hasty correction (after the manner of "Doc" Robt "Le Vombiteur" Lowndes): ouiji! --Aint sech igorence unputtupable!?!) --------------------------------------------------------------------- On October 14th, last, LOUIS KUSLAN, that Cosmicommentator of 170 Wn Av, W. Ha-ven/Ct, on receiving the last number of IMAGINATION! wrote: "Dear 'Madge':- I re-ceived the last issue with mingled feelings. However, I am really sorry that is impossible to continue, and I agree that it is best to discontinue while at the top of the fan world. ~~ Would you please return 'The Battle of Smaltz', a story which I submitted a while ago? Since 'Madge' is out, I know where I can get it published--and not in Cosmic Tales either. ~~ Hoping that Imagination! will return soon, I re-main, Your well-wisher, Louis Kuslan Publisher COSMCI TALES" The following day, Wally Marconette (scienti-Snaps, Movie Review, Teleview), wrote (in green & brown!) from the Air City (Dayton-O--2120 Pershing Bd): "Sorry that 'Madge' is no more. In spite of all the nasty, nasty things I've said about her, I loved her just the same." [Signature JNO W CAMPBELL JR in middle of page] (The perpetrator of this penmanship edits a prfessional stf mag. 3 guesses. & we hereby award the muchly coveted (?) ancient Chinese order of the Li-Ki Fountain Pen to the possessor of the most "astounding" signature since Harry Bates' ...JNO W CAMPBELL JR!): "Dear Madge: The good die young! ~~ I am most sincerely sorry to hear that you must pass from the scene of science-fiction fandom, and can only wish that, now that the CRITIC has also gone its way, California will revive its unique abilities in some other form. ~~ Perhaps, even, MADGE can continue as a quarterly review? Surely week-ends and ho-lidays accumulate through three months to time enough for one issue, and in that quarter-year manuscripts of really good material might well build up to makde an ex-cellent issue. ~~ it seems too bad indeed that MADGE, who really did have a future, should now have no more than a past---even though so throughly successful and enjoy-able a past. ~~ With regret," A sympatheticard (printed) signd ELMER PERDUE, stating: "May you find some comfort in the knowledge that there are many who share in your sorrow. With sincere sympathy." Elmer's adres: 1218 S Cedar St, Casper/Wyo...
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FORWARD At terrific expense (tuppence) we have persuaded the highest priced & consequently most sought-after spiritualist in the world to-day, Chaschach of Abracadabrania, to pierce beyond the veil to to the un-known world where the strange personality which was known as "Madge" now dwells. This place, due to the controversial nature of the case, proved to b...purgatory! It seems Satan woudnt have her & the angels r afraid she'd want to clip their wings so they coudnt continue to fly a-long the "Crooked Skyway" (which really clever readers will recognize as the heavenly counterpart of the "Crooked Road"). Consequintly, as Dr Dafoe would say, Madge, as the Piglatins woud say, is in on ellhay of an ixfay--woudnt U say? However...asking your indulgence, consider-ing the circumstances, she has condescended to respond to such remarks as suggest responses to her, which she will attempt to ansr in her old, accustomd manner. (In presenting letters, we omit, in this instance, due to time-limitations, the slow process of careful stencil-tracing of signatures--signatures, that is, with which we feel the majority of I-MAGINATION!'S followers woud b familiar.) In securing Madge's pithy parentheticomments, we wish to express our gratitude to the Cutner Cut-rate Occult Supply Co. for a special made-to-order "simplifyd spelng" jiu-jitsu board. (Er--hasty correction (after the manner of "Doc" Robt "Le Vombiteur" Lowndes): ouiji! --Aint sech igorence unputtupable!?!) --------------------------------------------------------------------- On October 14th, last, LOUIS KUSLAN, that Cosmicommentator of 170 Wn Av, W. Ha-ven/Ct, on receiving the last number of IMAGINATION! wrote: "Dear 'Madge':- I re-ceived the last issue with mingled feelings. However, I am really sorry that is impossible to continue, and I agree that it is best to discontinue while at the top of the fan world. ~~ Would you please return 'The Battle of Smaltz', a story which I submitted a while ago? Since 'Madge' is out, I know where I can get it published--and not in Cosmic Tales either. ~~ Hoping that Imagination! will return soon, I re-main, Your well-wisher, Louis Kuslan Publisher COSMCI TALES" The following day, Wally Marconette (scienti-Snaps, Movie Review, Teleview), wrote (in green & brown!) from the Air City (Dayton-O--2120 Pershing Bd): "Sorry that 'Madge' is no more. In spite of all the nasty, nasty things I've said about her, I loved her just the same." [Signature JNO W CAMPBELL JR in middle of page] (The perpetrator of this penmanship edits a prfessional stf mag. 3 guesses. & we hereby award the muchly coveted (?) ancient Chinese order of the Li-Ki Fountain Pen to the possessor of the most "astounding" signature since Harry Bates' ...JNO W CAMPBELL JR!): "Dear Madge: The good die young! ~~ I am most sincerely sorry to hear that you must pass from the scene of science-fiction fandom, and can only wish that, now that the CRITIC has also gone its way, California will revive its unique abilities in some other form. ~~ Perhaps, even, MADGE can continue as a quarterly review? Surely week-ends and ho-lidays accumulate through three months to time enough for one issue, and in that quarter-year manuscripts of really good material might well build up to makde an ex-cellent issue. ~~ it seems too bad indeed that MADGE, who really did have a future, should now have no more than a past---even though so throughly successful and enjoy-able a past. ~~ With regret," A sympatheticard (printed) signd ELMER PERDUE, stating: "May you find some comfort in the knowledge that there are many who share in your sorrow. With sincere sympathy." Elmer's adres: 1218 S Cedar St, Casper/Wyo...
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