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3 PHANNY 3 those who cast their ballots at the dictates of the highest bidder vote; and because those who have no axes to grind, or who will not sell their rights at the ballot-box to the highest bidder refuse to exercise the duties of citizenship, the anti-social minories area able to remain in power. And, in spite of all the efforts of the few intelligent, idealistic crusaders who manage to get into office, the reactionary elements remain in power, because they have the weight of numbers in the elected bodies on their side, and because they are willing to stoop to methods which their more honest colleagues will not use. The Future is what we make it. Progress is never fast enough to suit the young man who is out to reform the world, but their is some compensation in the thought that it is far too fast for the confirmed reactionary. And fans certainly look out of place among the calamity-howling worshippers of "The Good Old Days;" those bitter reactionaries to whom change means destruction; people who cannot and will not comprehend change, except in a retrograde direction. They dwell lovingly on the merids of "the good five-cent cigar" and the nickel stein of "suds;" they say very little --for publication, that is--about $9.00-a-week-tops for common labor. ------------------------------------------------------------------ FEBRUARY15HowmanyValentinesdidyouget?Yuhain'tsaying'?Oh,theywasallcinucak,butnottoU? -------------------------------------------------------------------- "BY THEIR WORKS YE SHALL KNOW THEM" AGENTBITE OF INWIT (Fall; Post Mailing) Nope, "Doc," I'm not one of those who favor the policy of "no comment on post mailings," but Aggie got here after I'd finished cutting the stencils last quarter, co.... "Vive L' Emperor" was good. I haven't read "The Greek." If Tiffany Thayer is the bird I think he is (I seem to remember him as the author of a pamphlet circulated by Joquel last year; a pamphlet containing a mess of Fortean ravings more specious than anything I've read, outside of a few of Degler's wilder flights ) then I'm not likely to read it. I may be missing something worthwile, but I don't think so; in all probability, I'd merely successd in reinforcing my agreement with the "Futurian Investigator." ---"Trigger Talk at Green Guna" involves too many obscure references to Fan-doings in Feud-days to intererst me much; I'm not familiar with some of the events, and am not interested in them. -- "Afterwards" - I liked it; especially, "And the dust of dead dreams bitters the wintry air." CALIBAN and other SHAW items. -- I don't like Degler, too, Larry, but I reckon the FAPA can survive with him or without him. - Spence's columns interesting and informative. M-m; commented on the wrong issue first, but I'll get to all of them in time. Statement about Spence goes in this issue, too; ditto Marlowe, but neither calls for especial comment. Of course, Marlowe says that Collier's "Green Thoughts" is good, but then he can't expect to be right all the time. Even I oops; skip that, please. -- The visit to Palmer brings up the question of why Palmer's system of pictures first doesn't produce more good stories. I wonder how many stories in other magazines have been inspired by Palmer's pics? I know of one. It was rejected by Palmer and later appeared in COMET; then, a year or so later, another story for the same pic. The COMET tale was much the better of the two. -- I think a machine can look alien, Larry, although I don't think the term fits old-time Paul's. The first example that comes to mind is the illustration by Schneeman for "Eccentric Orbit;" I couldn't visualize my "vibrator" pic. I insist that it looks like nothing compatible with present concepts of machines; it does, of course, have a silhouette vaguely reminiscent of an old fashioned mortar of Civil-War vintage, but the rest of it is so out of keeping with that concept that the whole is definitely alien; yet it convets the idea of the "vibrator" very well. Yet it is supposedly the product of a civilization alien from ours oly in the sense that it is in the future. -- Alpha-Man's dream
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3 PHANNY 3 those who cast their ballots at the dictates of the highest bidder vote; and because those who have no axes to grind, or who will not sell their rights at the ballot-box to the highest bidder refuse to exercise the duties of citizenship, the anti-social minories area able to remain in power. And, in spite of all the efforts of the few intelligent, idealistic crusaders who manage to get into office, the reactionary elements remain in power, because they have the weight of numbers in the elected bodies on their side, and because they are willing to stoop to methods which their more honest colleagues will not use. The Future is what we make it. Progress is never fast enough to suit the young man who is out to reform the world, but their is some compensation in the thought that it is far too fast for the confirmed reactionary. And fans certainly look out of place among the calamity-howling worshippers of "The Good Old Days;" those bitter reactionaries to whom change means destruction; people who cannot and will not comprehend change, except in a retrograde direction. They dwell lovingly on the merids of "the good five-cent cigar" and the nickel stein of "suds;" they say very little --for publication, that is--about $9.00-a-week-tops for common labor. ------------------------------------------------------------------ FEBRUARY15HowmanyValentinesdidyouget?Yuhain'tsaying'?Oh,theywasallcinucak,butnottoU? -------------------------------------------------------------------- "BY THEIR WORKS YE SHALL KNOW THEM" AGENTBITE OF INWIT (Fall; Post Mailing) Nope, "Doc," I'm not one of those who favor the policy of "no comment on post mailings," but Aggie got here after I'd finished cutting the stencils last quarter, co.... "Vive L' Emperor" was good. I haven't read "The Greek." If Tiffany Thayer is the bird I think he is (I seem to remember him as the author of a pamphlet circulated by Joquel last year; a pamphlet containing a mess of Fortean ravings more specious than anything I've read, outside of a few of Degler's wilder flights ) then I'm not likely to read it. I may be missing something worthwile, but I don't think so; in all probability, I'd merely successd in reinforcing my agreement with the "Futurian Investigator." ---"Trigger Talk at Green Guna" involves too many obscure references to Fan-doings in Feud-days to intererst me much; I'm not familiar with some of the events, and am not interested in them. -- "Afterwards" - I liked it; especially, "And the dust of dead dreams bitters the wintry air." CALIBAN and other SHAW items. -- I don't like Degler, too, Larry, but I reckon the FAPA can survive with him or without him. - Spence's columns interesting and informative. M-m; commented on the wrong issue first, but I'll get to all of them in time. Statement about Spence goes in this issue, too; ditto Marlowe, but neither calls for especial comment. Of course, Marlowe says that Collier's "Green Thoughts" is good, but then he can't expect to be right all the time. Even I oops; skip that, please. -- The visit to Palmer brings up the question of why Palmer's system of pictures first doesn't produce more good stories. I wonder how many stories in other magazines have been inspired by Palmer's pics? I know of one. It was rejected by Palmer and later appeared in COMET; then, a year or so later, another story for the same pic. The COMET tale was much the better of the two. -- I think a machine can look alien, Larry, although I don't think the term fits old-time Paul's. The first example that comes to mind is the illustration by Schneeman for "Eccentric Orbit;" I couldn't visualize my "vibrator" pic. I insist that it looks like nothing compatible with present concepts of machines; it does, of course, have a silhouette vaguely reminiscent of an old fashioned mortar of Civil-War vintage, but the rest of it is so out of keeping with that concept that the whole is definitely alien; yet it convets the idea of the "vibrator" very well. Yet it is supposedly the product of a civilization alien from ours oly in the sense that it is in the future. -- Alpha-Man's dream
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