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Dream Quest, v. 1, issue 1, July 1947
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Dream Quest 10 for the sake of other people. Surely "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is an extravagant doctrine; must we spend time sympathizing with the lost brethren beyond our Ken? Even if this is a world fated to become, by our efforts, a better place to live in, there are countless others though undetectable to us, in which men are unhappy; and if we do not try to make this a better world, the better world "exists" somewhere else. Therefore let me look to my own welfare and pleasure only, and let the world go hang. The answer is that that is not the way human beings function. We are not driven to make sacrifices for ideals by a backgroundless desire that the world shall be a better place. We are driven to it by sympathy with people we have seen in person or in the newsreels, by calculations that what benefits others will benefit ourselves in unguessable ways, by training which makes us unable to be fully happy while seeing unhappiness around us. By such considerations as these the human machine is moved to try to improve all of the world that is known or likely to become known to its mind. But what you can't know won't hurt you. -THE END- ************************************* COMING IN THE NEXT ISSUE There has been fan fiction, in the past. This fan fiction has been good, bad, and indifferent. The general concensus of opinion seems to be that most of it was not worth reading. While occasionally a piece as good as "The Girl with Muddy Eyes" appeared, this apparently was so seldom that fen tired of searching the clay for diamonds and skipped all stuff in fanzines labelled "fiction" entirely. Therefore it is purely as an experiment that we announce a fan fictional piece that is slated to be started in DREAM QUEST #2. We are going to begin publication of a serial, fictional in nature. If you peoples react favorably to it, the thing will be continued indefinitely, or at least as long as the author continues to write installments. If you don't like it, it will be junked right here and now, with nobody the loser. Not even the author -- for he has only turned out Part I and most of Part II yet; the rest of it is all in his mind. If you don't like it, the idea will never leave that place. This serial's title is "The Dream Quest of the Unknown Cadaver." Actually, the only resemblance of the story to the title is the Quest. No Cadavers do any walking -- or at least they are not central characters. The thing will be humorous and satirical in nature, and will be entirely picaresque -- structurally it is like a movie serial, not a novel. The author is new to fandom; his name is Gordon Elliott, and editor Miller found him in long Beach, California.
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Dream Quest 10 for the sake of other people. Surely "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is an extravagant doctrine; must we spend time sympathizing with the lost brethren beyond our Ken? Even if this is a world fated to become, by our efforts, a better place to live in, there are countless others though undetectable to us, in which men are unhappy; and if we do not try to make this a better world, the better world "exists" somewhere else. Therefore let me look to my own welfare and pleasure only, and let the world go hang. The answer is that that is not the way human beings function. We are not driven to make sacrifices for ideals by a backgroundless desire that the world shall be a better place. We are driven to it by sympathy with people we have seen in person or in the newsreels, by calculations that what benefits others will benefit ourselves in unguessable ways, by training which makes us unable to be fully happy while seeing unhappiness around us. By such considerations as these the human machine is moved to try to improve all of the world that is known or likely to become known to its mind. But what you can't know won't hurt you. -THE END- ************************************* COMING IN THE NEXT ISSUE There has been fan fiction, in the past. This fan fiction has been good, bad, and indifferent. The general concensus of opinion seems to be that most of it was not worth reading. While occasionally a piece as good as "The Girl with Muddy Eyes" appeared, this apparently was so seldom that fen tired of searching the clay for diamonds and skipped all stuff in fanzines labelled "fiction" entirely. Therefore it is purely as an experiment that we announce a fan fictional piece that is slated to be started in DREAM QUEST #2. We are going to begin publication of a serial, fictional in nature. If you peoples react favorably to it, the thing will be continued indefinitely, or at least as long as the author continues to write installments. If you don't like it, it will be junked right here and now, with nobody the loser. Not even the author -- for he has only turned out Part I and most of Part II yet; the rest of it is all in his mind. If you don't like it, the idea will never leave that place. This serial's title is "The Dream Quest of the Unknown Cadaver." Actually, the only resemblance of the story to the title is the Quest. No Cadavers do any walking -- or at least they are not central characters. The thing will be humorous and satirical in nature, and will be entirely picaresque -- structurally it is like a movie serial, not a novel. The author is new to fandom; his name is Gordon Elliott, and editor Miller found him in long Beach, California.
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