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Fandango, v. 3, issue 3, whole 11, Spring 1946
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COMMENTS ON THE WINTER MAILING FULL-LENGTH ARTICLES. Extremely interesting, and a marvel of factually struck by Dunk's apparent up-and-downnesss; the exchange would be drifting along evenly and without apparent hostility and all of a sudden "Scum of the Earth!" from Dunk. Another amusing bit of byplay was the way in which Dunk avoided using address changes taken from Speerish sources. In passing, though, I can't help wondering if Speer counted up the activity fulfillment this opus has donated to Dunk! ---ooOoo--- SUSPRO. Being a sentimental old fool myself quite often, I too have wondered why humor should have replaced sentiment to so large (hyphenation copywighted 1946 by Fanewa) an extent. Does it not seem plausible that perhaps cynicism and hard-boiledness (which certainly characterize our 1946 culture) are just too incompatible with sentiment for the latter to stay? People nowadays are blase and tough the things that either horrified our ancestors or filled their bosoms with throbbing sentiments bring today either a yawn or a belly-laugh. Cf. the immensely popular revival of P. T. Barnum's old shocker, The Drunkard, or, for that matter, pick up the average Victorian novel and laugh yourself sick over the love scenes. Since most sentimental actions have a definite content of grotesqueness, our blase modern laughs at them, without noticing the often touching motivation. When the cynic can of necessity have but two or three reactions to anything He can become depressed; he can get angry; or he can shrug it off with a laugh. That cartoon on page 5 is the funniest thing I've ever seen in FAPA. I'm looking forward to Searles' comment on this one! ---ooOoo--- BROWSING #10. The best thing in a very good mailing. Comment on such a work as this is preposterous. The statements with which I disagree are refuted better than I could refute them; while the statements which meet with my approval are expressed better than I could express them. The symposium left me with a mingled feeling of delight and frustration. ---ooOoo--- BROWSING #2. Good stuff, but uncommentable. (That is a t, Michael, NOT a d!) GLOM. Can this, I hope, be the foreshadowing of a much more active Ackerman in FAPA? I cannot resist criticising 4e's atomic editorial, on the grounds that his flashy technique as a columnist has in this case rather overshadowed the genuine feeling which I know him to have on the subject. The multitude of catchy phrases tumbling one after the other left the reader (well all right, left me) admiring the glibness of a crack columnist rather than shaking my head sadly over mankind's approaching Big Bang. In any event, one must admire the guts that it took for a non-com to bulldoze the major into publishing the piece. How many of you guys would have had that much intestinal fortitude? I doubt if I would have. ---ooOoo--- INSPIRATION. One of the things I like best about Chandler is the accurate Los Angeles locale. And add to cheap editions of our boy 5 MUDERERS (Avon Mystery Monthly #19) and the World 49 cent edition of THE HIGH WINDOW. This last is one of the best fictionalizations of abnormal psychology I've ever read. Right in the same -- 3 --
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COMMENTS ON THE WINTER MAILING FULL-LENGTH ARTICLES. Extremely interesting, and a marvel of factually struck by Dunk's apparent up-and-downnesss; the exchange would be drifting along evenly and without apparent hostility and all of a sudden "Scum of the Earth!" from Dunk. Another amusing bit of byplay was the way in which Dunk avoided using address changes taken from Speerish sources. In passing, though, I can't help wondering if Speer counted up the activity fulfillment this opus has donated to Dunk! ---ooOoo--- SUSPRO. Being a sentimental old fool myself quite often, I too have wondered why humor should have replaced sentiment to so large (hyphenation copywighted 1946 by Fanewa) an extent. Does it not seem plausible that perhaps cynicism and hard-boiledness (which certainly characterize our 1946 culture) are just too incompatible with sentiment for the latter to stay? People nowadays are blase and tough the things that either horrified our ancestors or filled their bosoms with throbbing sentiments bring today either a yawn or a belly-laugh. Cf. the immensely popular revival of P. T. Barnum's old shocker, The Drunkard, or, for that matter, pick up the average Victorian novel and laugh yourself sick over the love scenes. Since most sentimental actions have a definite content of grotesqueness, our blase modern laughs at them, without noticing the often touching motivation. When the cynic can of necessity have but two or three reactions to anything He can become depressed; he can get angry; or he can shrug it off with a laugh. That cartoon on page 5 is the funniest thing I've ever seen in FAPA. I'm looking forward to Searles' comment on this one! ---ooOoo--- BROWSING #10. The best thing in a very good mailing. Comment on such a work as this is preposterous. The statements with which I disagree are refuted better than I could refute them; while the statements which meet with my approval are expressed better than I could express them. The symposium left me with a mingled feeling of delight and frustration. ---ooOoo--- BROWSING #2. Good stuff, but uncommentable. (That is a t, Michael, NOT a d!) GLOM. Can this, I hope, be the foreshadowing of a much more active Ackerman in FAPA? I cannot resist criticising 4e's atomic editorial, on the grounds that his flashy technique as a columnist has in this case rather overshadowed the genuine feeling which I know him to have on the subject. The multitude of catchy phrases tumbling one after the other left the reader (well all right, left me) admiring the glibness of a crack columnist rather than shaking my head sadly over mankind's approaching Big Bang. In any event, one must admire the guts that it took for a non-com to bulldoze the major into publishing the piece. How many of you guys would have had that much intestinal fortitude? I doubt if I would have. ---ooOoo--- INSPIRATION. One of the things I like best about Chandler is the accurate Los Angeles locale. And add to cheap editions of our boy 5 MUDERERS (Avon Mystery Monthly #19) and the World 49 cent edition of THE HIGH WINDOW. This last is one of the best fictionalizations of abnormal psychology I've ever read. Right in the same -- 3 --
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