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Fandango, v. 2, issue 3, whole no. 7, Winter 1944
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what they claim to have done in the past. Secondly, I feel very strongly the difference between fans as a whole and the people with whom I have hitherto associated. I honestly feel that fans should attempt to lead less introverted and more social lives. Perhaps my urgings along these lines have lacked tastefulness; no one can say that they have lacked force. I daresay I have punctured more than one amnion with my edged remarks; certainly no such process is conducive to popularity. One thing I definitely do object to is the way in which so many of you beat me down on the grounds that I am living my sexlife in the pages of Fan-Dango. I have never mentioned my own private life at any time during this entire discussion. I go ahead and lead my life in my own questionable way, just as though I'd never heard of fan-dom, and I do not consider it a topic for public discussion. I do feel that propaganda along the lines of sex and social life is just as acceptable as propaganda along half the lines that all you FAPs seem to enjoy. I have never intended to claim, either directly or through inference, that I am a great, big, strong, well-developed, viral he-man. I have merely tried to set forth, both directly and through inference, my personal philosophy. Together with many far better men than I, the actions of my life do not always measure up to my ideals. I'm still willing to bet that I come nearer to being normal than a lot of you. Anyway, I'm sincerely sorry that I offended so many of you. I shall make no promises not to offend you again; my FAPA magazine is written just as nearly as possible to the way I talk with my intimate friends. Up until now, I have considered nearly all of you in that category. I should like to be able to consider all 64 of you as something more than names in a membership roster. But I do wish to suggest that those of you who have objected to me, and to my admittedly crude but definitely sincere vehemence, stop for a moment of self-analysis and decide if they are offended because I am actually as big a heel as they seem to imagine me, or if the trouble is that you are unable to hear straight-from-the-shoulder, unflattering, and salty talk without suffering from a stepped-on ego. If the latter is the case, I suggest that perhaps a bit of personal readjustment might not injure certain of you. KEEP THE COMMENTS COMING A recent trend in FAPA seems to be aimed at reducing the comments on the mailings. Personally, I think that any sizable reduction--even of comments on comments--would materially impair this organization. Of all the APAs, this is the only one which is fundamentally a discussion group. With comments removed altogether, or else boiled down into well-night incomprehensible tabular forms, what becomes of our discussions? I GAG! And my mention of "well-nigh incomprehensible" in the preceding paragraph, leads directly into something else. What is there about fandom that leads to surrealistic experimentation with language? We find Yerke interlarding his conversation with bastardized Schweindeutach, Morojo holding forth unintellegdbly in Esperanto, Ackerman-ese, Channalingus, and what have you. The latest outbreak, that of Art Widner, sets an all-time low. I defy anyone to read Yhos' comments, even with the use of the inadequate lexicon he provided. At least, one can read Ackermanese without a dictionary! --3--
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what they claim to have done in the past. Secondly, I feel very strongly the difference between fans as a whole and the people with whom I have hitherto associated. I honestly feel that fans should attempt to lead less introverted and more social lives. Perhaps my urgings along these lines have lacked tastefulness; no one can say that they have lacked force. I daresay I have punctured more than one amnion with my edged remarks; certainly no such process is conducive to popularity. One thing I definitely do object to is the way in which so many of you beat me down on the grounds that I am living my sexlife in the pages of Fan-Dango. I have never mentioned my own private life at any time during this entire discussion. I go ahead and lead my life in my own questionable way, just as though I'd never heard of fan-dom, and I do not consider it a topic for public discussion. I do feel that propaganda along the lines of sex and social life is just as acceptable as propaganda along half the lines that all you FAPs seem to enjoy. I have never intended to claim, either directly or through inference, that I am a great, big, strong, well-developed, viral he-man. I have merely tried to set forth, both directly and through inference, my personal philosophy. Together with many far better men than I, the actions of my life do not always measure up to my ideals. I'm still willing to bet that I come nearer to being normal than a lot of you. Anyway, I'm sincerely sorry that I offended so many of you. I shall make no promises not to offend you again; my FAPA magazine is written just as nearly as possible to the way I talk with my intimate friends. Up until now, I have considered nearly all of you in that category. I should like to be able to consider all 64 of you as something more than names in a membership roster. But I do wish to suggest that those of you who have objected to me, and to my admittedly crude but definitely sincere vehemence, stop for a moment of self-analysis and decide if they are offended because I am actually as big a heel as they seem to imagine me, or if the trouble is that you are unable to hear straight-from-the-shoulder, unflattering, and salty talk without suffering from a stepped-on ego. If the latter is the case, I suggest that perhaps a bit of personal readjustment might not injure certain of you. KEEP THE COMMENTS COMING A recent trend in FAPA seems to be aimed at reducing the comments on the mailings. Personally, I think that any sizable reduction--even of comments on comments--would materially impair this organization. Of all the APAs, this is the only one which is fundamentally a discussion group. With comments removed altogether, or else boiled down into well-night incomprehensible tabular forms, what becomes of our discussions? I GAG! And my mention of "well-nigh incomprehensible" in the preceding paragraph, leads directly into something else. What is there about fandom that leads to surrealistic experimentation with language? We find Yerke interlarding his conversation with bastardized Schweindeutach, Morojo holding forth unintellegdbly in Esperanto, Ackerman-ese, Channalingus, and what have you. The latest outbreak, that of Art Widner, sets an all-time low. I defy anyone to read Yhos' comments, even with the use of the inadequate lexicon he provided. At least, one can read Ackermanese without a dictionary! --3--
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