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En Garde, whole no. 17, April 1946
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page 11. FAPA FROLICS By Bob Tucker CONSISTENT IS THE WORLD FOR AL . . . How to successfully execute a backward flip in print and get away with it is ably demonstrated by I.Q. Ashley on page 14 of the October issue of En Garde!, as follows. Your respectful attention is called to the first and last sentences of the quotation. "One must avoid the error of basing one's judgement of the capacity and abilities of an immortal brain upon the experiences of mere moribund mortals. After all, empirical knowledge has so often proved false. I would like to be an immortal! Nor can I find any reason why I should later regret it." (He'll squirm out of it, of course. Moribund mortals usually do.) YOU CAN QUOTE THAT AGAIN, BROTHER . . . We chanced across a quoteworthy quote in the pages of literachoore which we doubt if friend Speer will see fit to use. Anyone who subscribes to the theory that ladies and gentlemen think one thing but politely (if hypocritically) say another, are invited to pass over this department. The passage is from Monsarrat's "Leave Cancelled". "It's part of us, isn't it? To be articulate about our love-making, to mention the fact that a certain movement, a certain kind of caress, gave us pleasure or exhilaration. Remember how you suddenly remarked, out of nowhere: 'Very glad to have you aboard, sir!' And I said: 'Dear me, what do they teach you in the Wrens?' "That's how we should talk, to match what our bodies did; our lovemaking was never furtive or embarassed, a pair of groping hands in the darkness and an awkward silence in the morning. If we liked something we told each other, with laughter and tenderness or further desire." (Does anyone want to squirm out of that one?) OF HIDES AND MEN . . . Under the fascinating headline: "I Gloat! I Glee! Others Slobber!" in the January issue of A Tale of the 'Evans, old Tale 'Evans describes how he came by the original typescript of EE Smith's "Second-Stage Lensman" and subsequently had it "beautifully bound in
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page 11. FAPA FROLICS By Bob Tucker CONSISTENT IS THE WORLD FOR AL . . . How to successfully execute a backward flip in print and get away with it is ably demonstrated by I.Q. Ashley on page 14 of the October issue of En Garde!, as follows. Your respectful attention is called to the first and last sentences of the quotation. "One must avoid the error of basing one's judgement of the capacity and abilities of an immortal brain upon the experiences of mere moribund mortals. After all, empirical knowledge has so often proved false. I would like to be an immortal! Nor can I find any reason why I should later regret it." (He'll squirm out of it, of course. Moribund mortals usually do.) YOU CAN QUOTE THAT AGAIN, BROTHER . . . We chanced across a quoteworthy quote in the pages of literachoore which we doubt if friend Speer will see fit to use. Anyone who subscribes to the theory that ladies and gentlemen think one thing but politely (if hypocritically) say another, are invited to pass over this department. The passage is from Monsarrat's "Leave Cancelled". "It's part of us, isn't it? To be articulate about our love-making, to mention the fact that a certain movement, a certain kind of caress, gave us pleasure or exhilaration. Remember how you suddenly remarked, out of nowhere: 'Very glad to have you aboard, sir!' And I said: 'Dear me, what do they teach you in the Wrens?' "That's how we should talk, to match what our bodies did; our lovemaking was never furtive or embarassed, a pair of groping hands in the darkness and an awkward silence in the morning. If we liked something we told each other, with laughter and tenderness or further desire." (Does anyone want to squirm out of that one?) OF HIDES AND MEN . . . Under the fascinating headline: "I Gloat! I Glee! Others Slobber!" in the January issue of A Tale of the 'Evans, old Tale 'Evans describes how he came by the original typescript of EE Smith's "Second-Stage Lensman" and subsequently had it "beautifully bound in
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