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Milty's Mag, December 1941
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Milty's Mag Page four ___________________________________________________ Article eleven shall be amended to read as follows: The membership dues shall be seventy-five cents a year for active members, and $1.50 a year for associate members, to accompany each application for membership or renewal. If the Secretary-Treasurer shall find insufficient funds to cover the next mailing, sufficient equal assessments shall be made on each member, and members not complying shall not receive that mailing. Amendment: Article nine shall be amended by striking out the words, "Maintain a register of active members," from section (d), duties of the Official editor, and inserting the same words in section (c), duties of the Secretary-Treasurer, after the words, "The Secretary-Treasurer shall accept or reject membership applications and renewals." For discussion on the second amendment, see the vice-president's message in this issue of the Fantasy Amateur. ........... Recently received from J. Michael Rosenblum was a copy of the The Hampdenshire Wonder, a long-awaited item. The reading of it was slightly disappointing. It is an interesting little book, but Victor Stott is no superman. All he does is to sit in a library and read books and finally allow himself to be killed by an idiot. Aside from his supernormal abilities in reading and understanding, he possesses the Odd-Johnish quality of observing the process of life from an elevated pinnacle of great intelligence. Even Odd John possessed more survival value than Victor Stott, for John could take care of himself physically, while Victor was a helpless little child. But John finally came to his finish by being more interested in the solution of his abstract philosophical ideas than in the essential of keeping alive within a conflict. That sort of person cannot be considered the real superman, for he does not possess the will to survive, the vigor to push ahead that is necessary in an evolutionary strain. He is a freak. A highly intelligent freak, but still a transient. We are probably wrong in looking for a superman in the first place, for the author probably never had in mind the depicting of the homo superior that would eventually replace our race. The high point of the book for me is the brilliant manner in which the author delineates his characterizations with one sharp sentence or two. And the always delightful interview between the superior person and the homi sapiens with their very human failings. Victor, who can do cube roots mentally, merely shakes his head when asked, "what does half a stone o'loaf sugar at two-three-farthings come to?" And when asked, "How old was our Lord when He began His ministry," he does not have the certainty which any Sunday School pupil would have concerning the date, but instead quotes Greek texts to show the uncertainty of the subject, which is blasphemy to the grocer, for whom the word of the Bible is sufficient.
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Milty's Mag Page four ___________________________________________________ Article eleven shall be amended to read as follows: The membership dues shall be seventy-five cents a year for active members, and $1.50 a year for associate members, to accompany each application for membership or renewal. If the Secretary-Treasurer shall find insufficient funds to cover the next mailing, sufficient equal assessments shall be made on each member, and members not complying shall not receive that mailing. Amendment: Article nine shall be amended by striking out the words, "Maintain a register of active members," from section (d), duties of the Official editor, and inserting the same words in section (c), duties of the Secretary-Treasurer, after the words, "The Secretary-Treasurer shall accept or reject membership applications and renewals." For discussion on the second amendment, see the vice-president's message in this issue of the Fantasy Amateur. ........... Recently received from J. Michael Rosenblum was a copy of the The Hampdenshire Wonder, a long-awaited item. The reading of it was slightly disappointing. It is an interesting little book, but Victor Stott is no superman. All he does is to sit in a library and read books and finally allow himself to be killed by an idiot. Aside from his supernormal abilities in reading and understanding, he possesses the Odd-Johnish quality of observing the process of life from an elevated pinnacle of great intelligence. Even Odd John possessed more survival value than Victor Stott, for John could take care of himself physically, while Victor was a helpless little child. But John finally came to his finish by being more interested in the solution of his abstract philosophical ideas than in the essential of keeping alive within a conflict. That sort of person cannot be considered the real superman, for he does not possess the will to survive, the vigor to push ahead that is necessary in an evolutionary strain. He is a freak. A highly intelligent freak, but still a transient. We are probably wrong in looking for a superman in the first place, for the author probably never had in mind the depicting of the homo superior that would eventually replace our race. The high point of the book for me is the brilliant manner in which the author delineates his characterizations with one sharp sentence or two. And the always delightful interview between the superior person and the homi sapiens with their very human failings. Victor, who can do cube roots mentally, merely shakes his head when asked, "what does half a stone o'loaf sugar at two-three-farthings come to?" And when asked, "How old was our Lord when He began His ministry," he does not have the certainty which any Sunday School pupil would have concerning the date, but instead quotes Greek texts to show the uncertainty of the subject, which is blasphemy to the grocer, for whom the word of the Bible is sufficient.
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