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Fandango, v. 3, issue 3, whole 11, Spring 1946
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[title underlined] EN GARDE Up to snuff, which in this case is saying a great deal, but there really seems nothing pertinent to say. I must say that I am looking forward to the annish with a great deal of pleasure. [line break] ---oo0oo--- [title underlined] THE...THING. I told you so! (cf. Fan-Dango before last). I've already commented at great length on this one in a letter to the editors, so shan't go into it again, except to mention in passing that TUT somehow reminds me nostalgicly of [underlined] Fantasite. Also, do you gentlemen realise that TUT offers FAPA members a very slick opportunity to eat your cake and have it too. Not only can you get FAPA activity fulfillment through it's pages, but you can also speak to all fandom. A letter received today (3/26) from Helen Wesson mentioning that she sent out an edition of 250 copies is the basis for my statement. Let's deluge Crane/Wesson with material. [line break] ---oo0oo--- [title underlined] SCIENCE-FICTION. Well, Croutch, here is one of those gen[e]ral type mags you were hollering for a while back. [line break] ---oo0oo--- [title underlined] BYEOND. I still can't get over Norm's altruism. [line break] ---oo0oo--- [title underlined] FAN-TODS. Gardner's article is swell, and it is noteworthy that his "greatest implication" (i.e. sanity vs. unsanity and the possibility of doing something about it now) is precisley the chief point van Vogt was trying to make. When I discussed this story with him, I also garnered the impression that the thoughtful reader might be moved to do something about his own unsanity, and that he "hoped the story would straighten out as many mental kinks for the readers as it did for the writer". ((Or is that how you mak[e] quasi-quotes?)) Some FAPA member with more ambition than he knows what to do with should try to get permission to reprint the long dissection of van Vogt's writings (by Damon Knight, I believe) which recently appeared in Vanguard. It runs a dozen pages or so but is definitely worth the trouble, whether one agrees with all the conclusions or not. I rather like the idea of the little intra-city putt-putts, but fear that their rental would be beyond the mans of the average person, to say nothing of the difficulties that any attempt along this line would meet. The chief stumbling block, as I see it, is that this proposal does not take into consideration that vast amoun[t] of indispensible intra city truck traffic, which in actuality is one of our chief traffic problems. The actual unidealised city is not even sufficiently zoned so that truck traffic could be kept out of residential areas, let alone the commercial and industrial sec[t]ions. And with the probable city trend towards decentralization, rather than the multi-levelled towers so often portrayed stefnally, it does not seem that truck subways or elevated passenger roadways would be especially feasable, even if initial cost were no object.
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[title underlined] EN GARDE Up to snuff, which in this case is saying a great deal, but there really seems nothing pertinent to say. I must say that I am looking forward to the annish with a great deal of pleasure. [line break] ---oo0oo--- [title underlined] THE...THING. I told you so! (cf. Fan-Dango before last). I've already commented at great length on this one in a letter to the editors, so shan't go into it again, except to mention in passing that TUT somehow reminds me nostalgicly of [underlined] Fantasite. Also, do you gentlemen realise that TUT offers FAPA members a very slick opportunity to eat your cake and have it too. Not only can you get FAPA activity fulfillment through it's pages, but you can also speak to all fandom. A letter received today (3/26) from Helen Wesson mentioning that she sent out an edition of 250 copies is the basis for my statement. Let's deluge Crane/Wesson with material. [line break] ---oo0oo--- [title underlined] SCIENCE-FICTION. Well, Croutch, here is one of those gen[e]ral type mags you were hollering for a while back. [line break] ---oo0oo--- [title underlined] BYEOND. I still can't get over Norm's altruism. [line break] ---oo0oo--- [title underlined] FAN-TODS. Gardner's article is swell, and it is noteworthy that his "greatest implication" (i.e. sanity vs. unsanity and the possibility of doing something about it now) is precisley the chief point van Vogt was trying to make. When I discussed this story with him, I also garnered the impression that the thoughtful reader might be moved to do something about his own unsanity, and that he "hoped the story would straighten out as many mental kinks for the readers as it did for the writer". ((Or is that how you mak[e] quasi-quotes?)) Some FAPA member with more ambition than he knows what to do with should try to get permission to reprint the long dissection of van Vogt's writings (by Damon Knight, I believe) which recently appeared in Vanguard. It runs a dozen pages or so but is definitely worth the trouble, whether one agrees with all the conclusions or not. I rather like the idea of the little intra-city putt-putts, but fear that their rental would be beyond the mans of the average person, to say nothing of the difficulties that any attempt along this line would meet. The chief stumbling block, as I see it, is that this proposal does not take into consideration that vast amoun[t] of indispensible intra city truck traffic, which in actuality is one of our chief traffic problems. The actual unidealised city is not even sufficiently zoned so that truck traffic could be kept out of residential areas, let alone the commercial and industrial sec[t]ions. And with the probable city trend towards decentralization, rather than the multi-levelled towers so often portrayed stefnally, it does not seem that truck subways or elevated passenger roadways would be especially feasable, even if initial cost were no object.
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