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Spaceways, v. 3 issue 3, whole no. 19, March 1941
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SPACEWAYS 19 THE READERS ALWAYS WRITE This Issue of Spaceways [[handwritten 8]] Is Respectfully Dedicated to the Memory of a Reader Who Will Write No More: Earl Singleton First of all, comments about the end of Stardust; then we'll get into the general remarks. No paragraphing, to conserve space: Graph Waldeyer: "I am sorry to read that the column by the Star-Treader is to be no more. The writer of that section has a massive intellect, and the fact that he himself recognizes the fact doesn't make his intellect any less massive.'''''Even with the omission of the Stardust section, the magazine will be worth much more than the subscription. (But please don't raise the price--fan mag subscriptions already have forced me to cut out caviar." Rajoz: "For once, I really don't know what to say. I have only been an active fan for a little more than a year, which fact is known to you and most of the other fans. During this year I have had the pleasure to receive every issue of Spaceways. I have received more pleasure from Spaceways than from any other fanzine. When I receive most fanzines, I invariably turn to their readers' department first; but not so with Spaceways. When I received Spaceways, always, without exception, I turned first to Stardust, the best all around column in fandom. It will be hard to have to think of Stardust as having been the best column, instead of being the best one. The person who can turn out a column as good as Stardust was (I wish I could use is instead of was) will have to be another Miske. The only thing I can say is, I'm sorry there will be no more Stardust.....''''' I weep, I weep--for--'we meet here no more'." N. Willmorth: "I am sorry that you are losing the Star-Treader, but you should have thrown this last article away and printed a short notification that henceforth Miske would not be prominently displayed in your pages. Stardust is worth to me about .02 and 2/10000000000. Blank pages with 'this space for rent' printed in the middle would have read better." Art Widner Jr: "Somehow I feel strangely akin to that dope in Cleveland, altho he would be horrified at the thot of such a one as I presuming to approach such magnificence. It is with a feeling of irreparable loss that I watch his lonely little figure, yet so straight and stiff, like a little boy playing soldier, fade into the distance. I feel that, because there will never be another Miske.....Nor will the same Miske appear again. He has severed the links that at best were poor stuff to furnish fandom connection with him. We shall hear less and less of him, and finally, no more...The Final Blackout for JCM, and I am honestly sorry to see it happen. Hail and Farewell to the Admirable Dope! Of course you may print this. ....which you probably will not want to--as many fans will probably look at it as a cowardly kick in his retreating pants, instead of a tribute--more or less. It matters not, as I intend to bid him the same sort of farewell directly, in any case." Harry Jenkins, Jr.: "No matter who he is, J. Chapman Miske draws the admiration and respect of everyone. Even from his enemies. So Miske's name is dropped from the top columnists of today. However, I shall take one last crack at the inimitable character before his withdrawal. He claims to be a critic of poetry. I dispute that. Anyone who says that the only decent words ever written by Wordsworth were, 'The world is too much with us', is certainly no judge of good poetry. By the way, Star-Treader, how do you like the poetry of the master of the supernatural, Samuel Coleridge? If you recall, Mr. Miske, it was Wordsworth who gave Coleridge the spirit and backbone to write his numerous unfinished masterpieces. Wordsworth, the nature-lover, was the vertabrae of
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SPACEWAYS 19 THE READERS ALWAYS WRITE This Issue of Spaceways [[handwritten 8]] Is Respectfully Dedicated to the Memory of a Reader Who Will Write No More: Earl Singleton First of all, comments about the end of Stardust; then we'll get into the general remarks. No paragraphing, to conserve space: Graph Waldeyer: "I am sorry to read that the column by the Star-Treader is to be no more. The writer of that section has a massive intellect, and the fact that he himself recognizes the fact doesn't make his intellect any less massive.'''''Even with the omission of the Stardust section, the magazine will be worth much more than the subscription. (But please don't raise the price--fan mag subscriptions already have forced me to cut out caviar." Rajoz: "For once, I really don't know what to say. I have only been an active fan for a little more than a year, which fact is known to you and most of the other fans. During this year I have had the pleasure to receive every issue of Spaceways. I have received more pleasure from Spaceways than from any other fanzine. When I receive most fanzines, I invariably turn to their readers' department first; but not so with Spaceways. When I received Spaceways, always, without exception, I turned first to Stardust, the best all around column in fandom. It will be hard to have to think of Stardust as having been the best column, instead of being the best one. The person who can turn out a column as good as Stardust was (I wish I could use is instead of was) will have to be another Miske. The only thing I can say is, I'm sorry there will be no more Stardust.....''''' I weep, I weep--for--'we meet here no more'." N. Willmorth: "I am sorry that you are losing the Star-Treader, but you should have thrown this last article away and printed a short notification that henceforth Miske would not be prominently displayed in your pages. Stardust is worth to me about .02 and 2/10000000000. Blank pages with 'this space for rent' printed in the middle would have read better." Art Widner Jr: "Somehow I feel strangely akin to that dope in Cleveland, altho he would be horrified at the thot of such a one as I presuming to approach such magnificence. It is with a feeling of irreparable loss that I watch his lonely little figure, yet so straight and stiff, like a little boy playing soldier, fade into the distance. I feel that, because there will never be another Miske.....Nor will the same Miske appear again. He has severed the links that at best were poor stuff to furnish fandom connection with him. We shall hear less and less of him, and finally, no more...The Final Blackout for JCM, and I am honestly sorry to see it happen. Hail and Farewell to the Admirable Dope! Of course you may print this. ....which you probably will not want to--as many fans will probably look at it as a cowardly kick in his retreating pants, instead of a tribute--more or less. It matters not, as I intend to bid him the same sort of farewell directly, in any case." Harry Jenkins, Jr.: "No matter who he is, J. Chapman Miske draws the admiration and respect of everyone. Even from his enemies. So Miske's name is dropped from the top columnists of today. However, I shall take one last crack at the inimitable character before his withdrawal. He claims to be a critic of poetry. I dispute that. Anyone who says that the only decent words ever written by Wordsworth were, 'The world is too much with us', is certainly no judge of good poetry. By the way, Star-Treader, how do you like the poetry of the master of the supernatural, Samuel Coleridge? If you recall, Mr. Miske, it was Wordsworth who gave Coleridge the spirit and backbone to write his numerous unfinished masterpieces. Wordsworth, the nature-lover, was the vertabrae of
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