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Voice of the Imagination (VOM), whole no. 6, April 1940

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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION

enjoyment of it's practical improbability. It's a land of fantasy in which I lose myself - a Never Land - a Munchkinland - it's a dust-mop to sweep the cobwebs of bubiness from the mind - why get technical? And if the story just finished is just not up to par (or mar, too), fergit it and try your luck on the next. Not everyone likes his eggs the same style the next fellow orders.
                                                      "So we have a Kudera - well, well, and well, well. Good of you to give the name the proper pronouncistion - too many people dunno how to handle these Central Yurrupeen names -- (It just happens I know some folks in these parts who bear that name.) Duck from Forrie's barrage of puns! Tusk tusk - some day 4e is gonna feel so-ho sorry for all those puns - when he gits in the punitenshairy and no one will opun the door when he gets his share of coffe without puns. Upun my word, it's too too - - - - (Dija ever see a pig's kin, watch a grid iron or hear a foot ball? Pun formation!)
                                            "Ahem, bob Tucker, - my spelling is just an attempt to variate Yunyted Snaiks as she is garbled - using the different versions of phonetics - don't complain too much, young feller, or I'll spik in shorthand, without vowels. And if I get to Bloomington in a few months, I'll h'ant yer Prehistoric House - zombie or no.
                                           "So, Markie R. of these parts wants to larn 'Don'tShoot, I surrender.' In Deutsch I can tell yu - it iss 'Schuesse night! Ich ergebe mich.' Es ist gerne geschehen!
                                                 "To Francis J. Litz - Gerty! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
                             "Note to Forrie: 'Member 'way back in June at the Blackhawk you told me my handwriting was to be analyzed by that Frenchy - wotever became of it? You've had me in suspenders for 8 months now. (Yes, that's been holding things up for quite sometime. Enuf to make U ill. Chicago, ill. Your breath been coming up short pants? U find a coat on your tongue? Uh-huh, just as I thot; old Dr Ack's diagnosis wasnt sarong at that. Lamour, toujout Lamour, is waht I always say. Which brings us in a roundabout way to Mme Zhan Dark. Franc-ly, we r in the dark about her. When war came to Europe we lost contact with her & Haussler. Praps we shoudve seen the handriting on the wall.)
                             "Am enclosing enudda coin to help along the cause." (We auto thank U for this & of cars we do!)

Expressing some Aussy strong opinions, the 14-yr-old ex-fan, declares from Down Under (67 Thistle St, Lutwyches W3, Brisbane, Q, Australia): "VOM has arrived to supply my critical, degraded and (I am told) pornographic mind with many interesting reflections, mainly of a derogatory and libellous nature.... 'The Cities are full of pride, challenging each to each.....' and Reinsberg doth a lusty piece of drum-banging for Chicafo and Mr. Kipling on your first page (#3). His panegyric confirms my suspicions that its inhabitants, not its weather, have earned by patient endeavour Chicago's proud title of 'The Windy City!' Reinsberg's shameless plagiarization (in block capitals and without due ackowledgement) of Tosti, in his last paragraph, is amply compensated for by his reassuring last lines, which end on the consoling note that, in 1940, Chicago is, as might not be anticipared by some ignorami without proper knowlegde of geography, Chicago. Mr. Reinsberg may now assume his fit position in the ranks of such other Enlighteners of the World as King Osaka, Frederick Engels and Sally Rand. ~~ Hastily swooping in direct line of attack on the next vulnerable spot where, unconscious of their awful doom, the little victims play, we find the L.ASF.L. reducing a terror-sctricken populace to gasping fits of epilepsy and heart palpitation, with the weighty opinion that the Convention's Exclusion of Six Members stinks to the Chicago fertilizer fatories and beyond. The employment of semi-legal jargon, five-dollar-and-a-bargain-at-the-price sesquipedalians and block capitals reduces your editorial anxieties for that

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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION enjoyment of it's practical improbability. It's a land of fantasy in which I lose myself - a Never Land - a Munchkinland - it's a dust-mop to sweep the cobwebs of bubiness from the mind - why get technical? And if the story just finished is just not up to par (or mar, too), fergit it and try your luck on the next. Not everyone likes his eggs the same style the next fellow orders. "So we have a Kudera - well, well, and well, well. Good of you to give the name the proper pronouncistion - too many people dunno how to handle these Central Yurrupeen names -- (It just happens I know some folks in these parts who bear that name.) Duck from Forrie's barrage of puns! Tusk tusk - some day 4e is gonna feel so-ho sorry for all those puns - when he gits in the punitenshairy and no one will opun the door when he gets his share of coffe without puns. Upun my word, it's too too - - - - (Dija ever see a pig's kin, watch a grid iron or hear a foot ball? Pun formation!) "Ahem, bob Tucker, - my spelling is just an attempt to variate Yunyted Snaiks as she is garbled - using the different versions of phonetics - don't complain too much, young feller, or I'll spik in shorthand, without vowels. And if I get to Bloomington in a few months, I'll h'ant yer Prehistoric House - zombie or no. "So, Markie R. of these parts wants to larn 'Don'tShoot, I surrender.' In Deutsch I can tell yu - it iss 'Schuesse night! Ich ergebe mich.' Es ist gerne geschehen! "To Francis J. Litz - Gerty! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! "Note to Forrie: 'Member 'way back in June at the Blackhawk you told me my handwriting was to be analyzed by that Frenchy - wotever became of it? You've had me in suspenders for 8 months now. (Yes, that's been holding things up for quite sometime. Enuf to make U ill. Chicago, ill. Your breath been coming up short pants? U find a coat on your tongue? Uh-huh, just as I thot; old Dr Ack's diagnosis wasnt sarong at that. Lamour, toujout Lamour, is waht I always say. Which brings us in a roundabout way to Mme Zhan Dark. Franc-ly, we r in the dark about her. When war came to Europe we lost contact with her & Haussler. Praps we shoudve seen the handriting on the wall.) "Am enclosing enudda coin to help along the cause." (We auto thank U for this & of cars we do!) Expressing some Aussy strong opinions, the 14-yr-old ex-fan, declares from Down Under (67 Thistle St, Lutwyches W3, Brisbane, Q, Australia): "VOM has arrived to supply my critical, degraded and (I am told) pornographic mind with many interesting reflections, mainly of a derogatory and libellous nature.... 'The Cities are full of pride, challenging each to each.....' and Reinsberg doth a lusty piece of drum-banging for Chicafo and Mr. Kipling on your first page (#3). His panegyric confirms my suspicions that its inhabitants, not its weather, have earned by patient endeavour Chicago's proud title of 'The Windy City!' Reinsberg's shameless plagiarization (in block capitals and without due ackowledgement) of Tosti, in his last paragraph, is amply compensated for by his reassuring last lines, which end on the consoling note that, in 1940, Chicago is, as might not be anticipared by some ignorami without proper knowlegde of geography, Chicago. Mr. Reinsberg may now assume his fit position in the ranks of such other Enlighteners of the World as King Osaka, Frederick Engels and Sally Rand. ~~ Hastily swooping in direct line of attack on the next vulnerable spot where, unconscious of their awful doom, the little victims play, we find the L.ASF.L. reducing a terror-sctricken populace to gasping fits of epilepsy and heart palpitation, with the weighty opinion that the Convention's Exclusion of Six Members stinks to the Chicago fertilizer fatories and beyond. The employment of semi-legal jargon, five-dollar-and-a-bargain-at-the-price sesquipedalians and block capitals reduces your editorial anxieties for that