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Vanguard Boojum page 22 (knight, his reviews - continued) the scanty reviews you get. Renascence announcement Dirty pool, Blish. Now I'll have to join the Usher Society. ... "Solid material -- The Hollow Men" Ho! Googol Nice cover, but why not put something inside? Joe's Jottings I think -- hope, anyway -- that your pessimism about Vanguard is unjustified. Size of the eighth mailing seems to indicate that it is. There are a couple of FAPA members I'd like to see Vanguard snatch -- Speer and Rothman -- but neither seems a likely prospect. As for FAPA as a whole, it seems to be composed almost entirely of deadwood. Look what we fished out of it this time. Gwan, ifya dlike it heah, wyncha go back weya comefrm? Tumbrils dear little red-white-and-blue Tumbrils. ... Jim's account of the silk-screen catastrophe is substantially accurate, but he forgot to mention that earlier in the evening -- somewhere around midnight, that is -- he doshed out to buy three gold-plated oil brushes, which turned out be not much good for either silk-screen or oil painting. But I still say women don't understand these things. ... "Worksheet for a Better World" is fine stuff; Blish's prose, by my probably shopworn standards, gets better and better. ... That should read "Blish's fiction", but I won't say it; it sounds obscene. ... "Cristobal Colon": dirty underground pool, beckons: I heed call, &sip it: find that oiler's slick machine talk semaphoring in/re three-dotted surrealism. Goblins took away me dignity! -- in fine, completely frustrated until consequences: Shaw, daylight showed between me and the under gag. Fan-tods To take things bass-backwards, your query about the popularity of Van Vogt's work is an honest one, & deserves an honest answer -- which I can't give. Short of the evasion: "is there any justification for the popularity of Richard Shaver?", I can only suggest that a partial answer might be found by investigating the mental eccentricities of such people as Thos. Gardner ... but it wouldn't be worth it. The subject fascinates me, though. I think both Van Vogt and Gardner are paranoid types; I'm schizoid, which, if you care to accept the analogy, may account for the cat-and-dog opposition. ... I flubbed badly on at least two points in "World of Van Vogt": one, the misuse of "non-Aristotelian" which both you and Emden caught; the other was may failure to realize that Korzybski was the major source of the Van Vogt metaphysic. Interestingly, AE missed both in his reply. What pleases me most about the Van Vogt and Gardner apologias, however, is the profound ignorance of semantics which both display: Van Vogt, for example, is apparently not even aware of the distinction between semantocs and "General Semantics". Incidentally, anyone interested in assessing AE literary competence might have some fun by tracing the influence of E. E. Smith and Isaac Asimov in his work, and comparing the originals with the imitations. For example, the trick of expanding the plot base from story to story, which Smith used in the Lensman series with great dexterity, creates a morass of contradiction in "Ā", as I took some paints to point out; and AE's political extrapolations, such s they are, are clearly derived from Asimov. ... About your query again: on one point, at least, Gardner's article provides an obvious answer. The man is style-deaf, even more so than Van Vogt
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Vanguard Boojum page 22 (knight, his reviews - continued) the scanty reviews you get. Renascence announcement Dirty pool, Blish. Now I'll have to join the Usher Society. ... "Solid material -- The Hollow Men" Ho! Googol Nice cover, but why not put something inside? Joe's Jottings I think -- hope, anyway -- that your pessimism about Vanguard is unjustified. Size of the eighth mailing seems to indicate that it is. There are a couple of FAPA members I'd like to see Vanguard snatch -- Speer and Rothman -- but neither seems a likely prospect. As for FAPA as a whole, it seems to be composed almost entirely of deadwood. Look what we fished out of it this time. Gwan, ifya dlike it heah, wyncha go back weya comefrm? Tumbrils dear little red-white-and-blue Tumbrils. ... Jim's account of the silk-screen catastrophe is substantially accurate, but he forgot to mention that earlier in the evening -- somewhere around midnight, that is -- he doshed out to buy three gold-plated oil brushes, which turned out be not much good for either silk-screen or oil painting. But I still say women don't understand these things. ... "Worksheet for a Better World" is fine stuff; Blish's prose, by my probably shopworn standards, gets better and better. ... That should read "Blish's fiction", but I won't say it; it sounds obscene. ... "Cristobal Colon": dirty underground pool, beckons: I heed call, &sip it: find that oiler's slick machine talk semaphoring in/re three-dotted surrealism. Goblins took away me dignity! -- in fine, completely frustrated until consequences: Shaw, daylight showed between me and the under gag. Fan-tods To take things bass-backwards, your query about the popularity of Van Vogt's work is an honest one, & deserves an honest answer -- which I can't give. Short of the evasion: "is there any justification for the popularity of Richard Shaver?", I can only suggest that a partial answer might be found by investigating the mental eccentricities of such people as Thos. Gardner ... but it wouldn't be worth it. The subject fascinates me, though. I think both Van Vogt and Gardner are paranoid types; I'm schizoid, which, if you care to accept the analogy, may account for the cat-and-dog opposition. ... I flubbed badly on at least two points in "World of Van Vogt": one, the misuse of "non-Aristotelian" which both you and Emden caught; the other was may failure to realize that Korzybski was the major source of the Van Vogt metaphysic. Interestingly, AE missed both in his reply. What pleases me most about the Van Vogt and Gardner apologias, however, is the profound ignorance of semantics which both display: Van Vogt, for example, is apparently not even aware of the distinction between semantocs and "General Semantics". Incidentally, anyone interested in assessing AE literary competence might have some fun by tracing the influence of E. E. Smith and Isaac Asimov in his work, and comparing the originals with the imitations. For example, the trick of expanding the plot base from story to story, which Smith used in the Lensman series with great dexterity, creates a morass of contradiction in "Ā", as I took some paints to point out; and AE's political extrapolations, such s they are, are clearly derived from Asimov. ... About your query again: on one point, at least, Gardner's article provides an obvious answer. The man is style-deaf, even more so than Van Vogt
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