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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 24, August 1942

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IMAGI-NATION
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[Signed Barbara Bovard] just having met Real, Live Fans, after having been isoLAted in Shangri-La (truth is stranger than fiction) reveals some reactions to actifans & their fmz &c., from her airy eyrie at 1119 1/2 S. Kenmore: "In the first place, I'll have to be jolly careful about what I say, because if I don't, 4e will slip in a pun everytime I open my mouth. (FUN, chum, not BUN. Nya! Beat you to it!) (Where've U bun all my life, Punnocchio?) His facility for 'the lowest form of humor' is quite amazing, and is quietly driving me crazier than ever. '' What's all the fuss about? Devil worship or anything else you want to call it depends entirely on the individual and what he believes. Ergo, what he worships is something he created, and known to him alone. Sects and their worshipping is mass hypnotism -- self-hypnotism, and therefore not dependable. If anyone wants an argument on occult powers and 'dark' and 'light' magic, magicians, etc., kindly address me and let's have some fun. Modestly, I pride myself on being open-minded (that is what mind is left after seven years of strict scientific training), and other people's opinions interest me greatly. Any takers? '' Somebody hold me up! (Is their a robber in the audience?) A whole cargo of real, live, in-the-flesh fans have been introduced to me, and the impressions gained heretofore are amazing. In the first place, everybody knows everybody else, from coast to coast, north and south; second, everybody runs of helps support a fanmag of some kind; third, everyone is crazy; fourth, everyone would rather argue than eat, and if he can't argue, he'll fight anyone or anything; fifth, I'm crazy too! '' Seriously, I think that fandom is a marvelous thing. Where there would ordinarily be social barriers and conventions, restrained feeling and formality, in the world of fans, the mutual like of science-fictions and all the branches brings out earnest solicitation of discussions, letters, magazines, friends, humor, arts and sciences, and the more-or-less level-headedness in talking about environments, social life and world conditions -- not mention all the cultures from picanthropus on down. And I do mean down! '' I like VOM. From my first reading, I get the impression that the mag represents a steady, old-time, non-partisan, impersonal dispersal center for the thoughts and works of everyone who has anything whatsoever to do with fandom. Sort of 'upper crust', so to speak. '' Catching up with Tigrina, I like the way cartoons about/by her are scattered through VOM. Her whole notion of answering to the Devil is different, but I'll be Mars to Venus that she has a good reason for what she said. Most people make as startling declarations as that out of some impulse, some reason that may have lain hidden deep and been jolted out, or a reason caught up on the spur of the moment out of humor, desire, bitterness, or hate. '' I like that illus in Vom 23 muchly. The detail intrigues me because it is so fine, and shows careful work. The figure itself is one of the best-proportioned I have seen in a long time, but it doesn't look like the drawing of a live person; it looks like the drawing of a drawing, or of a doll, or statue. She and Pock's devil in Light for May should get together. Watch the brimstone roll! '' How many of the audience have read Talbot Mundy's books? In particular, 'Black Light', 'Om', 'The Devil's Guard', and 'Old Ugly-Face?' the merit in these books is that Mundy makes no attempt whatsoever to fool the public or write these books on a science-fantasy basis. From the way they are told, they might be the case-book of a missionary or a foreign correspondent in India. The characters and settings are real, the things that happen plausible and highly possible. Every new adventure is ripe for conjecture. Mahatmas, occultry, hypnotism, a possible new civilization. Well--has anybody read them? '' This blithering and blathering has gone far enough. Why doesn't someone tell me to shut up? '' Confidentially, life is wonderful."

[Illustration of a hand pointing downwards with a string labeled 'Tom' tied around the forefinger.]

HAVE YOU 4 GOTTEN ??

THE 'SCIENCE & FANTASY FICTION ALBUM'

needs your snapshot & autograf. IF you haven't done so already, don't fail to send yours to World Headquarters:

Thos. R. Daniel
878 E. 2d
Pomona, Cal

YOU mustn't let this opportunity for unity in stf & solidifying fandom escape. Sign your name on a piece of typing paper 3" x 5" & send with your snapshot to the above address...…….

[Illustration of a man with a star, planet, and comet behind him mimeoing issues of VOM. Signed BEB]

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IMAGI-NATION 15 [Signed Barbara Bovard] just having met Real, Live Fans, after having been isoLAted in Shangri-La (truth is stranger than fiction) reveals some reactions to actifans & their fmz &c., from her airy eyrie at 1119 1/2 S. Kenmore: "In the first place, I'll have to be jolly careful about what I say, because if I don't, 4e will slip in a pun everytime I open my mouth. (FUN, chum, not BUN. Nya! Beat you to it!) (Where've U bun all my life, Punnocchio?) His facility for 'the lowest form of humor' is quite amazing, and is quietly driving me crazier than ever. '' What's all the fuss about? Devil worship or anything else you want to call it depends entirely on the individual and what he believes. Ergo, what he worships is something he created, and known to him alone. Sects and their worshipping is mass hypnotism -- self-hypnotism, and therefore not dependable. If anyone wants an argument on occult powers and 'dark' and 'light' magic, magicians, etc., kindly address me and let's have some fun. Modestly, I pride myself on being open-minded (that is what mind is left after seven years of strict scientific training), and other people's opinions interest me greatly. Any takers? '' Somebody hold me up! (Is their a robber in the audience?) A whole cargo of real, live, in-the-flesh fans have been introduced to me, and the impressions gained heretofore are amazing. In the first place, everybody knows everybody else, from coast to coast, north and south; second, everybody runs of helps support a fanmag of some kind; third, everyone is crazy; fourth, everyone would rather argue than eat, and if he can't argue, he'll fight anyone or anything; fifth, I'm crazy too! '' Seriously, I think that fandom is a marvelous thing. Where there would ordinarily be social barriers and conventions, restrained feeling and formality, in the world of fans, the mutual like of science-fictions and all the branches brings out earnest solicitation of discussions, letters, magazines, friends, humor, arts and sciences, and the more-or-less level-headedness in talking about environments, social life and world conditions -- not mention all the cultures from picanthropus on down. And I do mean down! '' I like VOM. From my first reading, I get the impression that the mag represents a steady, old-time, non-partisan, impersonal dispersal center for the thoughts and works of everyone who has anything whatsoever to do with fandom. Sort of 'upper crust', so to speak. '' Catching up with Tigrina, I like the way cartoons about/by her are scattered through VOM. Her whole notion of answering to the Devil is different, but I'll be Mars to Venus that she has a good reason for what she said. Most people make as startling declarations as that out of some impulse, some reason that may have lain hidden deep and been jolted out, or a reason caught up on the spur of the moment out of humor, desire, bitterness, or hate. '' I like that illus in Vom 23 muchly. The detail intrigues me because it is so fine, and shows careful work. The figure itself is one of the best-proportioned I have seen in a long time, but it doesn't look like the drawing of a live person; it looks like the drawing of a drawing, or of a doll, or statue. She and Pock's devil in Light for May should get together. Watch the brimstone roll! '' How many of the audience have read Talbot Mundy's books? In particular, 'Black Light', 'Om', 'The Devil's Guard', and 'Old Ugly-Face?' the merit in these books is that Mundy makes no attempt whatsoever to fool the public or write these books on a science-fantasy basis. From the way they are told, they might be the case-book of a missionary or a foreign correspondent in India. The characters and settings are real, the things that happen plausible and highly possible. Every new adventure is ripe for conjecture. Mahatmas, occultry, hypnotism, a possible new civilization. Well--has anybody read them? '' This blithering and blathering has gone far enough. Why doesn't someone tell me to shut up? '' Confidentially, life is wonderful." [Illustration of a hand pointing downwards with a string labeled 'Tom' tied around the forefinger.] HAVE YOU 4 GOTTEN ?? THE 'SCIENCE & FANTASY FICTION ALBUM' needs your snapshot & autograf. IF you haven't done so already, don't fail to send yours to World Headquarters: Thos. R. Daniel 878 E. 2d Pomona, Cal YOU mustn't let this opportunity for unity in stf & solidifying fandom escape. Sign your name on a piece of typing paper 3" x 5" & send with your snapshot to the above address...……. [Illustration of a man with a star, planet, and comet behind him mimeoing issues of VOM. Signed BEB]