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Variant, v. 1, issue 3, September 1947
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So, this is my feeble attempt at postulating the typical member of the PSFS. He is definitely an individual, and one with a well-developed, rather conventional sense of humor, modest, and quite literate. I would hazard a quess that he dresses neatly, and drinks wine usually, and Scotch whicky when he can afford it. He is not completely literal-minded, and is very fond of going along with the gag.' I would hazard another quess that there is a small minority within the club of great literal-mindedness, and considerably less sense of humor, who are not so flexible mentally as the first type. These are my conclusions at the end of the problem. For once I have had the privilege of attempting to synthesize a "general personality" of a group with a common interest without being able to do so satisfactorily. Admittedly, I believe it would have been more possible with the Serious Questionaire, a copy of which I have seen. However, that was not the problem. You editor challenged my didactic statement that given any fifteen pieces of data about each member of a group such as this I could draw a picture of a typical member vivid enough to be recognizable. However I am forced to back down/pay my wager with this article, and retire from the scene. Even the casual reader will understand that I was somewhat hampered by the nature of the questions, and the excessive (from the view of normal and average) individuality of the persons answering them. Anonymous. Despite our best attempts, one morning found us in the Prime Press office until nine-thirty. At nine-twenty-five, the Press walked in and caught us there. Reactions of the Prime Press to the Appropriation of its Office by the Staff of Variant: God rest you, merry ladies, may nothing you dismay Prime Press can let you work at night, But, mornings must you stay? Through daylight hours the press must roll, And business come and go, We like you all, we try to help, but must you plague us so? The whistle sounds at nine o'clock. Yet horns that blow at midnight, now mornings blast at Prime. The Multi-lith and Vari-Type are used as ne'er before The paper flies in flurries and (The hell it does, bud Ed.) The light bills upward soar. You have your ton of paper, two tables and a fan. And the group who are the Press, You let in not a man! The door is barricaded, away we turn our feet. Your paper will be out on time While the Press waits in the street! Alfred C. Prime August 26, 1947 (13)
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So, this is my feeble attempt at postulating the typical member of the PSFS. He is definitely an individual, and one with a well-developed, rather conventional sense of humor, modest, and quite literate. I would hazard a quess that he dresses neatly, and drinks wine usually, and Scotch whicky when he can afford it. He is not completely literal-minded, and is very fond of going along with the gag.' I would hazard another quess that there is a small minority within the club of great literal-mindedness, and considerably less sense of humor, who are not so flexible mentally as the first type. These are my conclusions at the end of the problem. For once I have had the privilege of attempting to synthesize a "general personality" of a group with a common interest without being able to do so satisfactorily. Admittedly, I believe it would have been more possible with the Serious Questionaire, a copy of which I have seen. However, that was not the problem. You editor challenged my didactic statement that given any fifteen pieces of data about each member of a group such as this I could draw a picture of a typical member vivid enough to be recognizable. However I am forced to back down/pay my wager with this article, and retire from the scene. Even the casual reader will understand that I was somewhat hampered by the nature of the questions, and the excessive (from the view of normal and average) individuality of the persons answering them. Anonymous. Despite our best attempts, one morning found us in the Prime Press office until nine-thirty. At nine-twenty-five, the Press walked in and caught us there. Reactions of the Prime Press to the Appropriation of its Office by the Staff of Variant: God rest you, merry ladies, may nothing you dismay Prime Press can let you work at night, But, mornings must you stay? Through daylight hours the press must roll, And business come and go, We like you all, we try to help, but must you plague us so? The whistle sounds at nine o'clock. Yet horns that blow at midnight, now mornings blast at Prime. The Multi-lith and Vari-Type are used as ne'er before The paper flies in flurries and (The hell it does, bud Ed.) The light bills upward soar. You have your ton of paper, two tables and a fan. And the group who are the Press, You let in not a man! The door is barricaded, away we turn our feet. Your paper will be out on time While the Press waits in the street! Alfred C. Prime August 26, 1947 (13)
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