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Fandango, v. 1, issue 2, whole no. 6, Fall 1944
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FAN-DANGO Vol. II, No. 2 Fall -- 1944 Whole No. 6 ON THE FRITZ [[illegible signature]] --o0o-- Readers well acquainted with my articles in other amateur fantasy magazines may leap to the conclusion that this is yet another in the perennial saga--if the terms be not mutually exclusive--of the Fritz surnamed Lang. As long as I can milk another pun out of the venerable name of that cream of fantasy film directors, it seems I will have something further to write about the man responsible for [[underline]] Metropolis [[/underline]], [[underline]] Lilliam [[/underline]], usw. Let me hasten to disabuse the suspicious, then, and inform the merely curious: The surname around which this article is built is our famous author...Leiber. Fritz Leiber Jr. Author Leiber and I recently spent a very pleasant evening of "fran shock", the king-size den which also serves as a mattress and mailing address for your genial editor, Mr Francis Towner Laney. Alas for my naivety, to trust this out-o-Towner*, for, figuratively speaking, after entertaining me royally, he gave me the royal business! I was required to record the happenings of that evening! O, that sly and calculating Laney, that most exceedingly misleading, deaf-ear-to-my-pleading, "I beseech you not to break you undoubtedly good breeding", ghoulish-feeding printer of good reading who an article is needing--in short, that not so zany Laney! Alright, I give up. I started to take my pen in hand, then take myself in hand instead. Read on at your own peril. I am reporting what transpired that necromantic nite--Idle Interpolation: Does a (rose)budding fan, with a Weird Tale, neck romantic?--after a lapse of several weeks. So it's in the lapse of the Gods. I compose under the handicap of not having made mental notes for a planned account. Later, I may decompose. As a reader of the late [[underline]] Unknown [[/underline]] [[underline]] Worlds [[/underline]] you would perhaps remember Leiber for [[underline]] Conjure [[/underline]] [[underline]] Wife [[/underline]]l as a reader of [[underline]] Astounding [[/underline]] [[underline]] Science [[/underline]] - [[underline]] Fiction [[/underline]], for [[underline]] Gather [[/underline]], [[underline]] Darkness! [[/underline]]; as a reader of [[underline]] Weird [[/underline]] [[underline]] Tales [[/underline]], I could not say, being more of a collector of this particular periodical than a peruser, but I believe he has had stories in its pages. This was not my first meeting with Leiber. It was he, I believe, who first visited me; some years ago, before he became a fantasy writer. He came seeking, as I recall, information about certain stories by either Lovecraft or Howard. Shortly after, I seem to remember seeing him a second time, at a meeting of fantasy writers and fans at Henry Kuttner's one-time Beverly Hills apartment. I believe, now, it was [[underline]] Howard [[/underline]] that Leiber came to see me about; for I remember Fritz had moved to chicago by the time we published REH's [[underline]] The [[/underline]] [[underline]] Hyborean [[/underline]] [[underline]] Age [[/underline]] (see footnote on page 2), and sent a [[dotted line]] * formerly of Clarkston, Washington. -- 1 --
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FAN-DANGO Vol. II, No. 2 Fall -- 1944 Whole No. 6 ON THE FRITZ [[illegible signature]] --o0o-- Readers well acquainted with my articles in other amateur fantasy magazines may leap to the conclusion that this is yet another in the perennial saga--if the terms be not mutually exclusive--of the Fritz surnamed Lang. As long as I can milk another pun out of the venerable name of that cream of fantasy film directors, it seems I will have something further to write about the man responsible for [[underline]] Metropolis [[/underline]], [[underline]] Lilliam [[/underline]], usw. Let me hasten to disabuse the suspicious, then, and inform the merely curious: The surname around which this article is built is our famous author...Leiber. Fritz Leiber Jr. Author Leiber and I recently spent a very pleasant evening of "fran shock", the king-size den which also serves as a mattress and mailing address for your genial editor, Mr Francis Towner Laney. Alas for my naivety, to trust this out-o-Towner*, for, figuratively speaking, after entertaining me royally, he gave me the royal business! I was required to record the happenings of that evening! O, that sly and calculating Laney, that most exceedingly misleading, deaf-ear-to-my-pleading, "I beseech you not to break you undoubtedly good breeding", ghoulish-feeding printer of good reading who an article is needing--in short, that not so zany Laney! Alright, I give up. I started to take my pen in hand, then take myself in hand instead. Read on at your own peril. I am reporting what transpired that necromantic nite--Idle Interpolation: Does a (rose)budding fan, with a Weird Tale, neck romantic?--after a lapse of several weeks. So it's in the lapse of the Gods. I compose under the handicap of not having made mental notes for a planned account. Later, I may decompose. As a reader of the late [[underline]] Unknown [[/underline]] [[underline]] Worlds [[/underline]] you would perhaps remember Leiber for [[underline]] Conjure [[/underline]] [[underline]] Wife [[/underline]]l as a reader of [[underline]] Astounding [[/underline]] [[underline]] Science [[/underline]] - [[underline]] Fiction [[/underline]], for [[underline]] Gather [[/underline]], [[underline]] Darkness! [[/underline]]; as a reader of [[underline]] Weird [[/underline]] [[underline]] Tales [[/underline]], I could not say, being more of a collector of this particular periodical than a peruser, but I believe he has had stories in its pages. This was not my first meeting with Leiber. It was he, I believe, who first visited me; some years ago, before he became a fantasy writer. He came seeking, as I recall, information about certain stories by either Lovecraft or Howard. Shortly after, I seem to remember seeing him a second time, at a meeting of fantasy writers and fans at Henry Kuttner's one-time Beverly Hills apartment. I believe, now, it was [[underline]] Howard [[/underline]] that Leiber came to see me about; for I remember Fritz had moved to chicago by the time we published REH's [[underline]] The [[/underline]] [[underline]] Hyborean [[/underline]] [[underline]] Age [[/underline]] (see footnote on page 2), and sent a [[dotted line]] * formerly of Clarkston, Washington. -- 1 --
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