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Vanguard Boojum 
page 23
(knight, his reviews - continued)

himself. ... Got sucked into the puzzle department this time, much to my own surprise. I figured 14 regions on the tetrahedron problem, but realized as soon as I sketched it that I'd forgotten to include the tetrahedron itself. Cube comes out 18, in a much simpler configuration. Hey Norm, are those figures a function of the number of sides, or what? Can't find any relation. I get 7 out of the train puzzle, but I suppose that can't be right. Could the answer to the ship thing maybe be p? ... Lane:  have no reason to doubt you, but just what is our "good reason" to believe the story of the beheaded Japanese? The inference that an army which drops atomic bombs would as lief behead prisoners? ... If I may for into the aesthetics argument, Norm, technical standards are things that enable you to understand why you like something -- or is that what Blish said? Anyway, there's a difference, hard to express in our lousy language, between a work that is technically correct and one that is technically good. For instance, some paintings I've seen this year by a missionary named Pieck look like a child's work in comparison to -- say Georgia O'Keefe's. Yet, for my money, Piech is worth ten of O'Keefe, and I can justify the opinion on the basis of technical standards -- composition, color, line. Does that louse everything up sufficiently? ... Glad to find somebody else who found "The Folded and the Quiet" comprehensible. I got no satisfaction from Blish. Maybe you can tell me:  what does "And break from ash the eyelids of defeated caves" mean, and why? Jim explained it, if I remember, as a passing reference to prehistoric races, which left me about where I was before. ... "... but one flare-up of disagreement on official procedure"/in FAPA/. A steady murmur, though, wouldn't you say? ...Where I come from, and where Mary Roberts Rinehart comes from too, apparently, that rime concerns the gruesome fate of ten little Indians. What the hell kind of nursery were you brought upon, Norm? ... Things I forgot to say I liked: the contents page (I swore I wouldn't make like Speer, but I'm beginning to weaken) "General Theory of Relativity", all the departments, and the urbanity spread all over. 

Constitution
     Well, why not?

Stuffanonsense
     My vote for the most brilliant contribution to date. I think the Tyrant should strike a medal. From one cover to the other -- misericordia, anvil, trivia, junkshop -- "in the last issue and in the next issue, but never in this issue" -- s'wonderful, Mildew, just plain wonderful.

Cretin
     Discreter than discrete ever was, which makes it not my cabbage patch. The Cohen anecdote struck me as atypical, so I asked him about it, & received this illumination: that direction-asker was no stranger; it was a friend of his. At this writing, by the way, Chet is on his way to LeHavre. You can expect a dirty postcard any day now. ... I find nothing to cavil at in the first section excepting the remark about Truman. What the hell were you talking about, Kidd? ... Accretion:  that's precisely the way I feel about Blish. ... Surprised to see you reduced to rehashing PM and reviewing books, chum. Surprised, hell. Alarmed. ... Had a long argument with Cohen and Shaw as to whether it is possible to disagree with your sentiments about wah. Don't think we got anywhere, but if you use the word the way they were using it, I do. My point was that you can disagree with an argument, but can only disapprove of an attitude.

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Vanguard Boojum page 23 (knight, his reviews - continued) himself. ... Got sucked into the puzzle department this time, much to my own surprise. I figured 14 regions on the tetrahedron problem, but realized as soon as I sketched it that I'd forgotten to include the tetrahedron itself. Cube comes out 18, in a much simpler configuration. Hey Norm, are those figures a function of the number of sides, or what? Can't find any relation. I get 7 out of the train puzzle, but I suppose that can't be right. Could the answer to the ship thing maybe be p? ... Lane: have no reason to doubt you, but just what is our "good reason" to believe the story of the beheaded Japanese? The inference that an army which drops atomic bombs would as lief behead prisoners? ... If I may for into the aesthetics argument, Norm, technical standards are things that enable you to understand why you like something -- or is that what Blish said? Anyway, there's a difference, hard to express in our lousy language, between a work that is technically correct and one that is technically good. For instance, some paintings I've seen this year by a missionary named Pieck look like a child's work in comparison to -- say Georgia O'Keefe's. Yet, for my money, Piech is worth ten of O'Keefe, and I can justify the opinion on the basis of technical standards -- composition, color, line. Does that louse everything up sufficiently? ... Glad to find somebody else who found "The Folded and the Quiet" comprehensible. I got no satisfaction from Blish. Maybe you can tell me: what does "And break from ash the eyelids of defeated caves" mean, and why? Jim explained it, if I remember, as a passing reference to prehistoric races, which left me about where I was before. ... "... but one flare-up of disagreement on official procedure"/in FAPA/. A steady murmur, though, wouldn't you say? ...Where I come from, and where Mary Roberts Rinehart comes from too, apparently, that rime concerns the gruesome fate of ten little Indians. What the hell kind of nursery were you brought upon, Norm? ... Things I forgot to say I liked: the contents page (I swore I wouldn't make like Speer, but I'm beginning to weaken) "General Theory of Relativity", all the departments, and the urbanity spread all over. Constitution Well, why not? Stuffanonsense My vote for the most brilliant contribution to date. I think the Tyrant should strike a medal. From one cover to the other -- misericordia, anvil, trivia, junkshop -- "in the last issue and in the next issue, but never in this issue" -- s'wonderful, Mildew, just plain wonderful. Cretin Discreter than discrete ever was, which makes it not my cabbage patch. The Cohen anecdote struck me as atypical, so I asked him about it, & received this illumination: that direction-asker was no stranger; it was a friend of his. At this writing, by the way, Chet is on his way to LeHavre. You can expect a dirty postcard any day now. ... I find nothing to cavil at in the first section excepting the remark about Truman. What the hell were you talking about, Kidd? ... Accretion: that's precisely the way I feel about Blish. ... Surprised to see you reduced to rehashing PM and reviewing books, chum. Surprised, hell. Alarmed. ... Had a long argument with Cohen and Shaw as to whether it is possible to disagree with your sentiments about wah. Don't think we got anywhere, but if you use the word the way they were using it, I do. My point was that you can disagree with an argument, but can only disapprove of an attitude.