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En Garde, whole no. 2, June 1942
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page 7. THE FORGOTTEN ONE Verily, this is an age of Infidels and Iconoclasts. Many have been the ghods of man and fan,but one by one they have toppled into the dust. There was a time when the High Priestes[se?] of FOO looked on multitudes as they paid homage to their deity. Literature and legend tell of the countless numbers who, in the past, bowed low before the Supreme One, GHU. Today, all is changed. In this Age of Doubters,the followers of FOO are foolish, and the great ghod GHU is decidedly ghuey. Yet, it is axiomatic that where there is much smoke, there must lurk some modicum of conflagration. With this in mind I determined upon the Great Research. I would comb the mists of long-forgotten days, and unearth the Truth. I would either verify the existence of these ancient ghods and revive the olden worship, or I would prove, once and for all time, their falsity. I buried myself in the dim and sacred recesses of my library, surronded by shelf on shelf of priceless, mouldy tomes, and set upon my quest. Forbearing to bore you with the immensity of my labors, I will only impart the gist of what was revealed to my probing mind. I began my research with GHU. The frequent occurrence of the name through the literature of the years led me on. Volume after rare volume I perused avidily. The philological approach proved to be most fruitful. Many present-day words were found to have unexpected relationship to the once-revered name of GHU. Our word "ghoul" once meant a follower of GHU. There is vague record of an incredibly ancient periodical called the "Ghoul's Ghazette". In fact, traces of it exist, unknown to the publisher, in a current magazine called "Le Zombie". Delving further into antiquity, I traced GHU to the Old Fanish word "Goo". This amazingly seems to account for the first utterance of a new-born infant, namely, "Goo, Goo!" It appears to have become almost a racial instinct to call upon Goo, now known as Ghu. The word "good" originally pertained to one who "walked with Goo", and "ghoost", or the later "ghost" was one who had gone to join his "Ghoo" (an intermediate form in the evolution to the present "Ghu"). I found many other associated words. There is Voo-Doo, a decadent and perverted form of worship that persist to this day. "Hoo-Doo", meaning a bringer of misfortune, was once the "Curse of Goo". Due to a once-held belief that an insane person was in some manner holy, "Coo-Coo", a term originally applied to one especially favored of Goo, has come to mean a person afflicted with mental instability.At one time the sacred virgins of Goo were called "Loo-Loos" and the High Priestess of Foo was reverently greeted with a chorus of "Woo-Woo!" As my studies progressed,certain points assumed a special significance. The word "Boo", so frequently voiced by ghosts -- could it have once been a word of praise or of supplication to ghod? Need it always have been spelled B-o-o? Then I made a real discovery. In a tattered,curiously-bound volume, hand written in a difficult Pre-Fannish dialect, I found that "F" and "G" were once interchangeable.
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page 7. THE FORGOTTEN ONE Verily, this is an age of Infidels and Iconoclasts. Many have been the ghods of man and fan,but one by one they have toppled into the dust. There was a time when the High Priestes[se?] of FOO looked on multitudes as they paid homage to their deity. Literature and legend tell of the countless numbers who, in the past, bowed low before the Supreme One, GHU. Today, all is changed. In this Age of Doubters,the followers of FOO are foolish, and the great ghod GHU is decidedly ghuey. Yet, it is axiomatic that where there is much smoke, there must lurk some modicum of conflagration. With this in mind I determined upon the Great Research. I would comb the mists of long-forgotten days, and unearth the Truth. I would either verify the existence of these ancient ghods and revive the olden worship, or I would prove, once and for all time, their falsity. I buried myself in the dim and sacred recesses of my library, surronded by shelf on shelf of priceless, mouldy tomes, and set upon my quest. Forbearing to bore you with the immensity of my labors, I will only impart the gist of what was revealed to my probing mind. I began my research with GHU. The frequent occurrence of the name through the literature of the years led me on. Volume after rare volume I perused avidily. The philological approach proved to be most fruitful. Many present-day words were found to have unexpected relationship to the once-revered name of GHU. Our word "ghoul" once meant a follower of GHU. There is vague record of an incredibly ancient periodical called the "Ghoul's Ghazette". In fact, traces of it exist, unknown to the publisher, in a current magazine called "Le Zombie". Delving further into antiquity, I traced GHU to the Old Fanish word "Goo". This amazingly seems to account for the first utterance of a new-born infant, namely, "Goo, Goo!" It appears to have become almost a racial instinct to call upon Goo, now known as Ghu. The word "good" originally pertained to one who "walked with Goo", and "ghoost", or the later "ghost" was one who had gone to join his "Ghoo" (an intermediate form in the evolution to the present "Ghu"). I found many other associated words. There is Voo-Doo, a decadent and perverted form of worship that persist to this day. "Hoo-Doo", meaning a bringer of misfortune, was once the "Curse of Goo". Due to a once-held belief that an insane person was in some manner holy, "Coo-Coo", a term originally applied to one especially favored of Goo, has come to mean a person afflicted with mental instability.At one time the sacred virgins of Goo were called "Loo-Loos" and the High Priestess of Foo was reverently greeted with a chorus of "Woo-Woo!" As my studies progressed,certain points assumed a special significance. The word "Boo", so frequently voiced by ghosts -- could it have once been a word of praise or of supplication to ghod? Need it always have been spelled B-o-o? Then I made a real discovery. In a tattered,curiously-bound volume, hand written in a difficult Pre-Fannish dialect, I found that "F" and "G" were once interchangeable.
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