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En Garde, whole no. 17, April 1946
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page 8. interesting, and a novel idea, but I'm not sure I like the way it was handled. Blish article on "life" was most interesting item in the issue. More of this sort would be welcome. it was informative, thought-provoking, yet entertainingly written. Zissman on atomic energy may be right if one takes a sifficiently long view. But it is the "rough and shocking, undemocratic, violent, and totalitarian" prospect for the immediate future that tends to bother me. I'm not going to chew my nails to the quick worrying about it, but it is an all too real possibility that shouldn't be lost sight of in an orgy of dreaming about reaching the "heights". Electronics should be helpful to those who find George O. Smith unreadable, but I wonder how many of them will avail themselves of the opportunity? Article on silk screen was good. Let's hope it encourages some efforts with this medium of reproduction. I'd have used it long ago if I hadn't got wrapped up in the airbrush method. That seems to wind up the reviews of a very fine mailing. It represented, counting the postmailings, a better than usual degree of both quantity and quality. Here's hoping the next proves as good. Hecoolypluckedabranchoflearningandflourisheditasawhiptosubduehiscon DOG TALES He was just a little puppy that had either been lost or abandoned. He'd probably been a Christmas present to someone, for he wore a collar with little bells on it, and a tag that said "wolf license". Although we life (six of us) in a five room flat of a four-flat building and obviously couldn't keep a dog, we took him in, and it was two months before we found another home for him. But what I wanted to tell was about how smart her proved to be. He looked like a cross between a chow and police dog, but lord knows what his heredity really was. Abby Lu got an old blanket for him to sleep on in our bedroom. It suited him fine. So well, in fact, that when he felt like sleeping in the daytime, he'd drag the blanket out to where there were people and sleep on it there. One time it caught on the leg of a table. He tugged and tugged, then stopped, cocked his head and studied it. He tried again without better success. Finally he grabbed the blanket again, walked back around the table leg and got it loose. Was that an accident, or was it? Then another time he wanted up on the davenport. He was too small to jump it, so he rolled that blanket of his into a ball right up next to the davenport, jumped on it, and then onto the davenport. Somehow that looked like there was some reasoning involved. The other day an LA paper told of a woman with a hen and a dog. The dog carried an egg out of the hen's next and dropped it on the sidewalk. As he viewed the mess in surprise, the hen bawled hell out of him. Next day it rained and he adopted the hen's quarters for shelter, and again got bawled out. I guess it "took" that time because was seen after that depositing an egg-sized rock in the nest. Amends?
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page 8. interesting, and a novel idea, but I'm not sure I like the way it was handled. Blish article on "life" was most interesting item in the issue. More of this sort would be welcome. it was informative, thought-provoking, yet entertainingly written. Zissman on atomic energy may be right if one takes a sifficiently long view. But it is the "rough and shocking, undemocratic, violent, and totalitarian" prospect for the immediate future that tends to bother me. I'm not going to chew my nails to the quick worrying about it, but it is an all too real possibility that shouldn't be lost sight of in an orgy of dreaming about reaching the "heights". Electronics should be helpful to those who find George O. Smith unreadable, but I wonder how many of them will avail themselves of the opportunity? Article on silk screen was good. Let's hope it encourages some efforts with this medium of reproduction. I'd have used it long ago if I hadn't got wrapped up in the airbrush method. That seems to wind up the reviews of a very fine mailing. It represented, counting the postmailings, a better than usual degree of both quantity and quality. Here's hoping the next proves as good. Hecoolypluckedabranchoflearningandflourisheditasawhiptosubduehiscon DOG TALES He was just a little puppy that had either been lost or abandoned. He'd probably been a Christmas present to someone, for he wore a collar with little bells on it, and a tag that said "wolf license". Although we life (six of us) in a five room flat of a four-flat building and obviously couldn't keep a dog, we took him in, and it was two months before we found another home for him. But what I wanted to tell was about how smart her proved to be. He looked like a cross between a chow and police dog, but lord knows what his heredity really was. Abby Lu got an old blanket for him to sleep on in our bedroom. It suited him fine. So well, in fact, that when he felt like sleeping in the daytime, he'd drag the blanket out to where there were people and sleep on it there. One time it caught on the leg of a table. He tugged and tugged, then stopped, cocked his head and studied it. He tried again without better success. Finally he grabbed the blanket again, walked back around the table leg and got it loose. Was that an accident, or was it? Then another time he wanted up on the davenport. He was too small to jump it, so he rolled that blanket of his into a ball right up next to the davenport, jumped on it, and then onto the davenport. Somehow that looked like there was some reasoning involved. The other day an LA paper told of a woman with a hen and a dog. The dog carried an egg out of the hen's next and dropped it on the sidewalk. As he viewed the mess in surprise, the hen bawled hell out of him. Next day it rained and he adopted the hen's quarters for shelter, and again got bawled out. I guess it "took" that time because was seen after that depositing an egg-sized rock in the nest. Amends?
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