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Voice of the Imagination (VOM), whole no. 7, June 1940

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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 9
SMALL TALK DEPT (Excerpts cut from correspondence by Little Scissor) COMET TOM sez: "Like the new VOM a lot, especially the printed cover and your keeping the contents page. About the most interesting thing in the issue was Bok's page. I also like the comments on my letter. Daugherty's grouch was interesting. Leonard Gipson was good too." JOE GILBERT: "Rather surprising to receive the Voice, so soon. Glad you're going bi-monthly. If can maintain a steady flow of those clever, TIME-like comments in the Contents page, then by all means retain it. Otherwise, it's superfluous. ~~ Best letter: Speers. If you don't differentiate between the letters, and material of other nature, then Rothman's exceptionally fine article makes a tie. ~~ The cover was super-super. Mr. Bok, it seems, has a sense of humor." (That's Wright - U're Wrong!) HARRY WARNER JR: "Keep, in votI, the contents page; style cover, and by all means the lithographed inserts, though they must be quite an expense. Roberts may jump out the window, I assert, and though it be treason, my cry for ink would be: back to black!" (O, Harry, how coud U? Black is hack--green is keen!) DICK WILSON: "Vox Madge received--either your proof reader fell down on hiser job, I had a bad carbon, or I was 1/2 asleep when I wrote that letter. ('Fiah', not 'fish', &c.)" (Yes we concede there is a dif tween a fire & a fish but as for our proofreader we shoud not wish to fire the poor fish even if he did make a fuelish mistake which we rnt ready to admit as fortunately we were using your letter as a mag-mark in the Jun Ast & "The Carbon Eater" ate all the carbon of bfor Ack coud stop it with an ack-ack & now nobody can prove nothin' on us!) LOUIS RUSSELL CHAUVENET: "Calculate on your slide rule, using the best available bottled sidereal time as lubricant, whether the next issue or the last issue is closer to the date you receive this, and commence my subscription accordingly. ~~ In time, who knows, I may have more to say than this." & time proved he did have more to say: the author of the mirror letter mentiond in our editorial. We Turnabout a portion & quote: "Of all the letters in thissh (wonder how that odd s got in?) I liked the Clarke contrib. best. Not only 4 th poetry, but also for (inconsistency arrived on the 4:fourty-for!) th well put objection to th asinine contest in mud-slinging wch thaverage fanfeuled winds down into. I cannot help it but after reading VOM my brain's mined with puns. ~~ If Trudy doesn't like Gerty, I don't like Trudy, and you may inform th gal that she is hereby named (pass me the champagne bottle) no less than (crash! Tinkle!) Grudy. All hail!" (Riddle: Y is feigned hurt like the aforementiond wine? Gvup? Both r sham pain!) BILL TEMPLE: "Again I compliment you & Morojo on the extreme neatness of your production. If genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, then you are obviously a pair of geniuses (genii?)." & what myt U term an infinite capacity for inflicting pain--as per our puns? Praps...pungency? DAVE MC-ILWAIN: "It has occurred to me that if ever USA joins in the war, and the American fans come to Britain -- boy, what a happy meeting we'll have. Just imagine the joy of actually seeing our Tuckers, Wollheims (Correction - I understand Donald is a non-interventionist, so maybe we wouldn't see him after all.), Mosks, Taurasis, Madles, Warners, Pohls, Bradburies, & perhaps even 4es in the flesh, even though they be adorned in militaristic trappings. I can almost sanction warfare when it opens up such exquisite possibilities." To return now to our fullength letters--
DICK WILSON, 2574 Bedford Ave, Bklyn: "VOMnipotent Ones: Here it is Saturday, 4/20/40, A.D. The weather is vile-April showers and general gloom....Scene: The Ivory Tower; Doc Lowndes sits typing Squeaky stencils to the emanations of a Strauss record on the phonograph. Don Wollheim is immersed in Weird Tales. Cyril Vod is perusing the latest Voice and nibbling at his nails. Chet Cohen is designing a Certificate of Officerdom for the Loyal and Benevolent Order of Gafia. I'm penciling the first draft of this letter on the back of an SFW proof sheet ('Carnell to Edit British Stf Mag'--haw!), using as backing a bound copy of Jay Lucas' 'The Man Who was 63,000 Years Old'. All very stfal an atmosphere, but scarcely joyous and uplifting ~~ I'm slouching on a sofa, being stared in the face by the back of hundreds of examples of novelic scientifictionaliterature and frowning, framed foto of 'The Tyrant of Technocracy' (hiya, Mac!), Howard Scott. ("Tot": 2-pt Argosyarn by Fred MacIssac, circa '32.) ~~ To Art Widner: You're on!

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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 9 SMALL TALK DEPT (Excerpts cut from correspondence by Little Scissor) COMET TOM sez: "Like the new VOM a lot, especially the printed cover and your keeping the contents page. About the most interesting thing in the issue was Bok's page. I also like the comments on my letter. Daugherty's grouch was interesting. Leonard Gipson was good too." JOE GILBERT: "Rather surprising to receive the Voice, so soon. Glad you're going bi-monthly. If can maintain a steady flow of those clever, TIME-like comments in the Contents page, then by all means retain it. Otherwise, it's superfluous. ~~ Best letter: Speers. If you don't differentiate between the letters, and material of other nature, then Rothman's exceptionally fine article makes a tie. ~~ The cover was super-super. Mr. Bok, it seems, has a sense of humor." (That's Wright - U're Wrong!) HARRY WARNER JR: "Keep, in votI, the contents page; style cover, and by all means the lithographed inserts, though they must be quite an expense. Roberts may jump out the window, I assert, and though it be treason, my cry for ink would be: back to black!" (O, Harry, how coud U? Black is hack--green is keen!) DICK WILSON: "Vox Madge received--either your proof reader fell down on hiser job, I had a bad carbon, or I was 1/2 asleep when I wrote that letter. ('Fiah', not 'fish', &c.)" (Yes we concede there is a dif tween a fire & a fish but as for our proofreader we shoud not wish to fire the poor fish even if he did make a fuelish mistake which we rnt ready to admit as fortunately we were using your letter as a mag-mark in the Jun Ast & "The Carbon Eater" ate all the carbon of bfor Ack coud stop it with an ack-ack & now nobody can prove nothin' on us!) LOUIS RUSSELL CHAUVENET: "Calculate on your slide rule, using the best available bottled sidereal time as lubricant, whether the next issue or the last issue is closer to the date you receive this, and commence my subscription accordingly. ~~ In time, who knows, I may have more to say than this." & time proved he did have more to say: the author of the mirror letter mentiond in our editorial. We Turnabout a portion & quote: "Of all the letters in thissh (wonder how that odd s got in?) I liked the Clarke contrib. best. Not only 4 th poetry, but also for (inconsistency arrived on the 4:fourty-for!) th well put objection to th asinine contest in mud-slinging wch thaverage fanfeuled winds down into. I cannot help it but after reading VOM my brain's mined with puns. ~~ If Trudy doesn't like Gerty, I don't like Trudy, and you may inform th gal that she is hereby named (pass me the champagne bottle) no less than (crash! Tinkle!) Grudy. All hail!" (Riddle: Y is feigned hurt like the aforementiond wine? Gvup? Both r sham pain!) BILL TEMPLE: "Again I compliment you & Morojo on the extreme neatness of your production. If genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, then you are obviously a pair of geniuses (genii?)." & what myt U term an infinite capacity for inflicting pain--as per our puns? Praps...pungency? DAVE MC-ILWAIN: "It has occurred to me that if ever USA joins in the war, and the American fans come to Britain -- boy, what a happy meeting we'll have. Just imagine the joy of actually seeing our Tuckers, Wollheims (Correction - I understand Donald is a non-interventionist, so maybe we wouldn't see him after all.), Mosks, Taurasis, Madles, Warners, Pohls, Bradburies, & perhaps even 4es in the flesh, even though they be adorned in militaristic trappings. I can almost sanction warfare when it opens up such exquisite possibilities." To return now to our fullength letters-- DICK WILSON, 2574 Bedford Ave, Bklyn: "VOMnipotent Ones: Here it is Saturday, 4/20/40, A.D. The weather is vile-April showers and general gloom....Scene: The Ivory Tower; Doc Lowndes sits typing Squeaky stencils to the emanations of a Strauss record on the phonograph. Don Wollheim is immersed in Weird Tales. Cyril Vod is perusing the latest Voice and nibbling at his nails. Chet Cohen is designing a Certificate of Officerdom for the Loyal and Benevolent Order of Gafia. I'm penciling the first draft of this letter on the back of an SFW proof sheet ('Carnell to Edit British Stf Mag'--haw!), using as backing a bound copy of Jay Lucas' 'The Man Who was 63,000 Years Old'. All very stfal an atmosphere, but scarcely joyous and uplifting ~~ I'm slouching on a sofa, being stared in the face by the back of hundreds of examples of novelic scientifictionaliterature and frowning, framed foto of 'The Tyrant of Technocracy' (hiya, Mac!), Howard Scott. ("Tot": 2-pt Argosyarn by Fred MacIssac, circa '32.) ~~ To Art Widner: You're on!