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En Garde, whole no. 16, January 1946
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page 3. ".....with jaundiced eye" FANZINE YEARBOOK: The usual gratitude for such compilations, plus a little extra for the nice printed job you made of it. AFTERTHOUGHT: I believe you had a point there, Doc, and it seems well-put. LIGHT: An interesting batch of letters seems to make up a good share of this issue, and 'tis well. How much does Scripto base his analyses upon study of the person's handwriting, and how much on preconceived opinions of the person's character? Just curious. BROWSING: Nice to see a bit of comment on the Mailing, and hope the department is enlarged in the future. Best Twelve Book Fantasies inspires the usual disagreement. One wonders whether and such list can ever have any real meaning aside from being an expression of one individual's opinion at the moment. Even polls on this subject must mean little. I doubt if you could find two fans who had read exactly the same group of fantasies. Then the order in which they were read, the age of the reader at the time of reading, etc., all unduly influence his choice. I'm afraid all the results of a poll indicate is that the average rating is thus and so, and said rating may have little connection with the actual quality of the volume. Britain Outside Fandom was much enjoyed. A TALE OF THE 'EVANS: It is always interesting to read accounts of fen adventuring, but I believe I had much more fun making the trip in a car and being able to get right out any time I felt like it and rub Jack's nose in the scenery, than you could have viewing it from a train window. On the other hand, well, at least you didn't have tires to worry about and wrestle with repeatedly. THE TIMEBINDER: No doubt the desire for personal security drives many to belief in a Supreme Being (or whatever one wishes to call it) on which one may lean. When one is unwilling, or unable due to a lack of ability or lack of available data, to fathom some of the more perplexing mysteries of the universe, shrugging the whole thing off as the will of some Omnipotent Being, and no concern of our's, provides an easy way out. Inversely according to our feeling of competence and ability to cope with the universe is the need for security. When this need becomes sufficiently intense, one attempts to escape. In lower intensities, the desire may be mingled with other unsatisfied desires, and the escape be into fantasy (and other "escape literature"), alcohol, concentration on work or other occupation to the exclusion of all else, and such forms of periodic relief. When more intense, escape into religion and other forms of mysticism provides the necessary refuge. Finally, if the intensity becomes extreme, escape into some type of insanity is the general rule and provides an adequate haven. So religion, and belief in a Supreme Being appears quite a natural thing. It's just the old matter of "supply and demand". The demand exists, due to quite explainable causes, whereupon either organized or individual religion is promptly supplied. The Atheist points with horror to the frightful things religion has done and the drag it has been on progress, but
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page 3. ".....with jaundiced eye" FANZINE YEARBOOK: The usual gratitude for such compilations, plus a little extra for the nice printed job you made of it. AFTERTHOUGHT: I believe you had a point there, Doc, and it seems well-put. LIGHT: An interesting batch of letters seems to make up a good share of this issue, and 'tis well. How much does Scripto base his analyses upon study of the person's handwriting, and how much on preconceived opinions of the person's character? Just curious. BROWSING: Nice to see a bit of comment on the Mailing, and hope the department is enlarged in the future. Best Twelve Book Fantasies inspires the usual disagreement. One wonders whether and such list can ever have any real meaning aside from being an expression of one individual's opinion at the moment. Even polls on this subject must mean little. I doubt if you could find two fans who had read exactly the same group of fantasies. Then the order in which they were read, the age of the reader at the time of reading, etc., all unduly influence his choice. I'm afraid all the results of a poll indicate is that the average rating is thus and so, and said rating may have little connection with the actual quality of the volume. Britain Outside Fandom was much enjoyed. A TALE OF THE 'EVANS: It is always interesting to read accounts of fen adventuring, but I believe I had much more fun making the trip in a car and being able to get right out any time I felt like it and rub Jack's nose in the scenery, than you could have viewing it from a train window. On the other hand, well, at least you didn't have tires to worry about and wrestle with repeatedly. THE TIMEBINDER: No doubt the desire for personal security drives many to belief in a Supreme Being (or whatever one wishes to call it) on which one may lean. When one is unwilling, or unable due to a lack of ability or lack of available data, to fathom some of the more perplexing mysteries of the universe, shrugging the whole thing off as the will of some Omnipotent Being, and no concern of our's, provides an easy way out. Inversely according to our feeling of competence and ability to cope with the universe is the need for security. When this need becomes sufficiently intense, one attempts to escape. In lower intensities, the desire may be mingled with other unsatisfied desires, and the escape be into fantasy (and other "escape literature"), alcohol, concentration on work or other occupation to the exclusion of all else, and such forms of periodic relief. When more intense, escape into religion and other forms of mysticism provides the necessary refuge. Finally, if the intensity becomes extreme, escape into some type of insanity is the general rule and provides an adequate haven. So religion, and belief in a Supreme Being appears quite a natural thing. It's just the old matter of "supply and demand". The demand exists, due to quite explainable causes, whereupon either organized or individual religion is promptly supplied. The Atheist points with horror to the frightful things religion has done and the drag it has been on progress, but
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