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Fantasite, v. 2, issue 5, whole 11, May-June 1943

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6 ... THE FANTASITE

should give you an idea of what Rocky was enduring that day many years ago; for alas, the mad scramble did not result in an idea. But, again, copying verbatim:

....All we need is one idea, and build a story around it. Is there anything in gravitations, again? How about a jovellett no I want to right a simple short story of six thousand words Start off with the wittenberg ship zowing through space, what goes wrong? Wittenbergs--disrupt lead atoms into electrons and protons. The spherical field--it gets square, and so what? The anatherm tube--no heat tube gets hot?

Two people are searching for something u 235? what diamond, people angels, lodestonesk heavy gas neutrons neutrinos angels asphalt ani mals, hot ice cold ice peace independenced clocks fans, they are searching for fans what kinds of fans, copy chases outlaw and find? Ship lands on earth it is inimical it is friendly it was disastrous it is nothing there are three men on the ship there are four men on the ship there are six men on the ship one has a disease, three has disease, nobody has a disease, there is not trouble, there is trouble, there is a girl mixed in, she is a time traveller, she asks our hero to take a little trip into the past with her, but like 1 sprague de camp she d oesn't believe in time travel, I mean he doesn't believe it, and like hypnosis he has no belief in it therefore he cannot time travel, there is an atom loose in the world it is causing all kinds of butterfly net to woven of vibrations and therefore you need a butterfly net to catch neutrinos which are holes in the ether, if yoo put two hoses in the water, eject water from them, they will find each other, where does that leave us, something is loose in the world you can only catch it with vibrations, therefore our hero scientist composes a butterfly net which is nothing more than a field of vibrations poised on the end of some instrument he makes, this ties in excellently with insanity. Allso ties in swell with insectologist, screwy guy. everybody scoffs at him, they know there are things loose in the world which are harming humanity, but how to catch them. Alien beings which drift around back of the victim's neck, and they cannot be dislodged, and you just pass this butterfly net through the person in questions and you bring this creatureout. If you see on moving forward toward you you catch him with the butterfly net therefore our hero devolves into a professor of physics who hates physics, but loves to catch butterflies he has a large collection and people think he is a little bit screwy, the head of the university gives him calling down because he is making a jackass of himself, story openthat way.

And, bigosh, the story did open that way, and if you happened to read "The Electrical Butterflies" in Fantastic Adventures, you'll see that it did. 

All of which should prove something. But what? Ah, me, what? Never mind, if you can't figure it out for yourselves, suppose we get on to the next classic example of what goes on behind the scenes, back in the sweatshop where the author works and slaves, for hours on end, on a story which is passed over by most with a mere expressive wrinkle of the nose. But this time, I am giving verbatim series of excerpts from a single-spaced page which gave me real results with a plot that tickled me to death: 

....What if they were stranded on that planet which formed the asteroid belt millions of years later? What if the doom that overhangs them is splitting up that asteroid toward the end of the story

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6 ... THE FANTASITE should give you an idea of what Rocky was enduring that day many years ago; for alas, the mad scramble did not result in an idea. But, again, copying verbatim: ....All we need is one idea, and build a story around it. Is there anything in gravitations, again? How about a jovellett no I want to right a simple short story of six thousand words Start off with the wittenberg ship zowing through space, what goes wrong? Wittenbergs--disrupt lead atoms into electrons and protons. The spherical field--it gets square, and so what? The anatherm tube--no heat tube gets hot? Two people are searching for something u 235? what diamond, people angels, lodestonesk heavy gas neutrons neutrinos angels asphalt ani mals, hot ice cold ice peace independenced clocks fans, they are searching for fans what kinds of fans, copy chases outlaw and find? Ship lands on earth it is inimical it is friendly it was disastrous it is nothing there are three men on the ship there are four men on the ship there are six men on the ship one has a disease, three has disease, nobody has a disease, there is not trouble, there is trouble, there is a girl mixed in, she is a time traveller, she asks our hero to take a little trip into the past with her, but like 1 sprague de camp she d oesn't believe in time travel, I mean he doesn't believe it, and like hypnosis he has no belief in it therefore he cannot time travel, there is an atom loose in the world it is causing all kinds of butterfly net to woven of vibrations and therefore you need a butterfly net to catch neutrinos which are holes in the ether, if yoo put two hoses in the water, eject water from them, they will find each other, where does that leave us, something is loose in the world you can only catch it with vibrations, therefore our hero scientist composes a butterfly net which is nothing more than a field of vibrations poised on the end of some instrument he makes, this ties in excellently with insanity. Allso ties in swell with insectologist, screwy guy. everybody scoffs at him, they know there are things loose in the world which are harming humanity, but how to catch them. Alien beings which drift around back of the victim's neck, and they cannot be dislodged, and you just pass this butterfly net through the person in questions and you bring this creatureout. If you see on moving forward toward you you catch him with the butterfly net therefore our hero devolves into a professor of physics who hates physics, but loves to catch butterflies he has a large collection and people think he is a little bit screwy, the head of the university gives him calling down because he is making a jackass of himself, story openthat way. And, bigosh, the story did open that way, and if you happened to read "The Electrical Butterflies" in Fantastic Adventures, you'll see that it did. All of which should prove something. But what? Ah, me, what? Never mind, if you can't figure it out for yourselves, suppose we get on to the next classic example of what goes on behind the scenes, back in the sweatshop where the author works and slaves, for hours on end, on a story which is passed over by most with a mere expressive wrinkle of the nose. But this time, I am giving verbatim series of excerpts from a single-spaced page which gave me real results with a plot that tickled me to death: ....What if they were stranded on that planet which formed the asteroid belt millions of years later? What if the doom that overhangs them is splitting up that asteroid toward the end of the story