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Variant, v. 1, issue 3, September 1947

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when I did not have time to dodge), Chastor never was fond of goats. The once current rumour, that he adored the creatures, probably is attributable, not to a critical canard nor to the jealous fabrication of some embittered collector of rejection slips, but, rather, to a typographical error by a writer who meant that Chastor was fascinated by ghosts. Simple, what!

Critics, and among them scholars, have wondered that Chastor's several interplanetary stories never dealt with Mars, although there is one reference to it in that whimsical item of stratospheriana Parsgot Abute.

Chastor's best known work is his romantic novel, which won a reknown almost seconded by its sequal. (It is interesting to note here that a copy of the latter, with the 's' missing on page forty-seven, illustrated with curious plates---there is a resemblance to Chastor in the middle figure of the group portrayed facing page twenty-seven--brought five-dollars and eighty cents at a recent auction.)

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when I did not have time to dodge), Chastor never was fond of goats. The once current rumour, that he adored the creatures, probably is attributable, not to a critical canard nor to the jealous fabrication of some embittered collector of rejection slips, but, rather, to a typographical error by a writer who meant that Chastor was fascinated by ghosts. Simple, what! Critics, and among them scholars, have wondered that Chastor's several interplanetary stories never dealt with Mars, although there is one reference to it in that whimsical item of stratospheriana Parsgot Abute. Chastor's best known work is his romantic novel, which won a reknown almost seconded by its sequal. (It is interesting to note here that a copy of the latter, with the 's' missing on page forty-seven, illustrated with curious plates---there is a resemblance to Chastor in the middle figure of the group portrayed facing page twenty-seven--brought five-dollars and eighty cents at a recent auction.)