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Voice of the Imagination (VOM), whole no 17, August 1941
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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 11 alredy willve read about these occurrences in more detail in the Shangri-L'Affaires; but as that column yet is to be ritten, I thot at least I'd better mention these matters while the mentioning was good, in case they got crowded out of the other. As for the quarter hour interruption, that was Ray Harryhausen on the fone--the imagi-native who's seen "King Kong" 37 times, "Pompeii" 20, is working on his own fantasy film, & created my "Hunchback of Notre Dame" mask. So to return to the "task" of recording the Denvention as I experienced it. (En passant: The introduction of the fonograf into the field is going to make the word "record" in its various forms rather ambiguous, n'est-ce pas?) So we find ourselves in the hall again. Maybe I'm rong--maybe several or a number of preliminary things hapnd--tonite, 22 days after the close of the Denvention, it sometimes is difficult for me to separate in my mind what took place one day & what another--nites & days were sort of runtogether a la time-machine, anyway, in a gray blur--so, as I say, maybe I'm rong, but as I remember, nothing stood in the way of making my Prepared Speech at once, & God! was I grateful, 'cause I'd've been a specimen if I'd had to've waited 1/2 the afternoon. The title of my talk was 'Paradox' & the subject of my speech was Why I Do Not Make Speeches. In other words, I talkt at length on why i do not talk lengthily publicly. It all's down on a disk; U probly can pick the platter up for about 75c from Daugherty; but don't do anything rash if U havent gotta lotta dough, U noe I havent heard the playback yet but probly all U get for your 6 bits is Ack doing a series of stutters & stammers & suctions... And so as to get everything off my mind at once & relax, no sooner had I returnd to my seat than I raised my hand & askt if I might be permitted to come back to the plat to say several things I had in mind. Request was granted, & in brief resume thee were they: (Both concern fm publishers only) Item a., the Preservation of Fmz. Individual collections may perish. The best bet to see your pet kept in good condition for posterity, so that in your old age a copy still will exist, is to send each issue to Edwin Hadley Smith, 524 N Kenmore St, Arlington, Va. He in turn will see that they properly are placed int he Library of Amateur Journalism in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. I for one look forward to visiting the Institute & ferreting out old fanmags when the convention eventually is held in Philadelphia. In the meantime, I think an article exists there & might suggest to U, Bob Madle, U drop around sometime soon & let fandom noe what U find on the fanmag situation there. For instance, I myself have forgotten, & am anxious to noe: I imagine originly, when I first found out about the Library, I mustve sent, in addition to duplicates of all other pubs I could gather to which I'd contributed, a complete file of TTT, SFD & Fantasy Mag. But U might make sure. Other publishers deciding to send copys of their mags might check first & find it unnecessary to send every issue as for the past few yrs I've been sending samples of others than my own. " My 2d thot from the plat was: I should like to see it become a tradition that publishers of fmz, forced to discontinue their fm, publish one post-final issue, the contents to consist solely of comments on the preceding number--nothing new, just letters about the old. Those who heard me noe I urged this action on these grounds: The only "pay" a person receives for riting a fan article, or drawing a picture, as the case may be, is the criticism or congratulations made on it by
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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 11 alredy willve read about these occurrences in more detail in the Shangri-L'Affaires; but as that column yet is to be ritten, I thot at least I'd better mention these matters while the mentioning was good, in case they got crowded out of the other. As for the quarter hour interruption, that was Ray Harryhausen on the fone--the imagi-native who's seen "King Kong" 37 times, "Pompeii" 20, is working on his own fantasy film, & created my "Hunchback of Notre Dame" mask. So to return to the "task" of recording the Denvention as I experienced it. (En passant: The introduction of the fonograf into the field is going to make the word "record" in its various forms rather ambiguous, n'est-ce pas?) So we find ourselves in the hall again. Maybe I'm rong--maybe several or a number of preliminary things hapnd--tonite, 22 days after the close of the Denvention, it sometimes is difficult for me to separate in my mind what took place one day & what another--nites & days were sort of runtogether a la time-machine, anyway, in a gray blur--so, as I say, maybe I'm rong, but as I remember, nothing stood in the way of making my Prepared Speech at once, & God! was I grateful, 'cause I'd've been a specimen if I'd had to've waited 1/2 the afternoon. The title of my talk was 'Paradox' & the subject of my speech was Why I Do Not Make Speeches. In other words, I talkt at length on why i do not talk lengthily publicly. It all's down on a disk; U probly can pick the platter up for about 75c from Daugherty; but don't do anything rash if U havent gotta lotta dough, U noe I havent heard the playback yet but probly all U get for your 6 bits is Ack doing a series of stutters & stammers & suctions... And so as to get everything off my mind at once & relax, no sooner had I returnd to my seat than I raised my hand & askt if I might be permitted to come back to the plat to say several things I had in mind. Request was granted, & in brief resume thee were they: (Both concern fm publishers only) Item a., the Preservation of Fmz. Individual collections may perish. The best bet to see your pet kept in good condition for posterity, so that in your old age a copy still will exist, is to send each issue to Edwin Hadley Smith, 524 N Kenmore St, Arlington, Va. He in turn will see that they properly are placed int he Library of Amateur Journalism in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. I for one look forward to visiting the Institute & ferreting out old fanmags when the convention eventually is held in Philadelphia. In the meantime, I think an article exists there & might suggest to U, Bob Madle, U drop around sometime soon & let fandom noe what U find on the fanmag situation there. For instance, I myself have forgotten, & am anxious to noe: I imagine originly, when I first found out about the Library, I mustve sent, in addition to duplicates of all other pubs I could gather to which I'd contributed, a complete file of TTT, SFD & Fantasy Mag. But U might make sure. Other publishers deciding to send copys of their mags might check first & find it unnecessary to send every issue as for the past few yrs I've been sending samples of others than my own. " My 2d thot from the plat was: I should like to see it become a tradition that publishers of fmz, forced to discontinue their fm, publish one post-final issue, the contents to consist solely of comments on the preceding number--nothing new, just letters about the old. Those who heard me noe I urged this action on these grounds: The only "pay" a person receives for riting a fan article, or drawing a picture, as the case may be, is the criticism or congratulations made on it by
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