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Voice of the Imagination, no. 9, October 1940
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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 5 process begins all over again: a box fills up in about eight months or even less. By the way, Ackie, what do you do with your letters? I've been in fandom but a few moments compared with you, and already am worried about them. (what--the moments? Why Harry! What have U been up to! --Forry) If you've kept all of yours--as I suppose you have--it must be enough by this time to raise the premium of your fire insurance policy about 200% (Sh! not so loud! Spose a Fire Inspector shoud be lisning? He myt get curious about those 20 trunks I told him were filled with crockery.) -- If it's that much work to lithograph, I'd go back to the mimeo covers. There's not so much difference in the appearance (hope you don't try to stencil that strike-over mess!) and I still say I don't like the covers you now use. I'm feverish waiting for the spirit photo, though. (Well, then, hope the cold chill of its spine-tingling terror has coold U off, pal!) --Just to do something different, I'll wind up this letter by saying that I won't see you at the Chicon, because I'll not be able to make it. The wet spot at the bottom of this epistle is a tear. If it isn't wet, you'll know it's evaporated. Run your tongue over it and try to taste the salt. Don't try to stencil it, though." From a fellow who did get to the Chicon, tho--% all the way from Chicago! Now friend Walter E. Liebacker of 1650 1/2 Juneway Terce: "4E and Morojo: to put down in writing what is in my mind is utterly impossible. Perhaps we need a Sematic (sp. Semantic) language as Doc Smith thinks. ~~ Suffice to say that the Chicon was one of THE events of my life. Meeting people & fans with th same ideas and tastes, talking over subjects considered blasé with many people etc.; it was priceless to me. ~~I might also add that you two were all I expected and more. Two people as congenial as you I may meet from time to time, but those times will be far in-between. ~~ Bosh, I'm getting sentimental. But all the aforesaid still goes. (U won't mind, then, Walt, if we let down our hair in print--well, mimeo ink, if U must be technical!--& say we derived great pleasure from making your acquainte=ancem tii? Oh, poo, that's pretty cumbersome talk for saying we think U are a swell guy--the both of us!) ~~ If you find 30¢ in this epistle (we did) it's for a few copies of VOM. To begin with next ish. ~~ again I say--glad I metcha (Likewise) ~~ P.S. Tell Pogo hello (Hello, Pogo)" LEIGH BRACKETT, young Angeleno authoress of "Beings Like These" & others, after attending her first meeting of the LASFS rote the Corresponding Sec'y: "I got a great kick out of the meeting, and shall probably be seeing you again in two or three weeks. Good luck at the Chicon." Of our mag she had to say: "VOM fascinates me. All that simplified spelling--when my brain, if any, is still atuned to Shakespeare and the Niebelungenlied! I can't seem to find any way of shortening my own name, unless I do it in international Phonetics. (Fair enuf.) Aren't you fortunate! (For having met U, yes). ~~ Bonne santê. (Merci beaucoup.)" THE Sage oF Salt creeK U b thompsoN LinconnebR 3136 q sT Dear VOICE: The omnibus volyum, eh? Wel, the results certali justify such glutny! 2B eight sure, the tis cov-red rite strangeli: Morojo's blush, no dout, evokt by the Galle(n)t apeal 4 sextification. I can manaj nicly without the latr, speshli since most uv the atemts along this lyn mor nerli resembl the ef4ts of smal boys, as displayd on adult fare' ~~ Weinsberg ntyrli rite about the Ackermoronic (ther it gos age; see wat U get wen I try 2 typ Ackermojargn! What I ment was Ackermorojoic--'j' as in Minnesota--) intropolations in letrs. Without them, VOM's 'lusty voice' is but a cacapunny uv tin horns, huting in a hollo! ~~ But enough of this wear and tear! My brand-new, second-hand Model 12 Remington, having turned out numberless 'Yrs. of the 5th rec'd and contents noted many years before the first stumbling stutters of Ackermanese, rebels at such unseemly association
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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 5 process begins all over again: a box fills up in about eight months or even less. By the way, Ackie, what do you do with your letters? I've been in fandom but a few moments compared with you, and already am worried about them. (what--the moments? Why Harry! What have U been up to! --Forry) If you've kept all of yours--as I suppose you have--it must be enough by this time to raise the premium of your fire insurance policy about 200% (Sh! not so loud! Spose a Fire Inspector shoud be lisning? He myt get curious about those 20 trunks I told him were filled with crockery.) -- If it's that much work to lithograph, I'd go back to the mimeo covers. There's not so much difference in the appearance (hope you don't try to stencil that strike-over mess!) and I still say I don't like the covers you now use. I'm feverish waiting for the spirit photo, though. (Well, then, hope the cold chill of its spine-tingling terror has coold U off, pal!) --Just to do something different, I'll wind up this letter by saying that I won't see you at the Chicon, because I'll not be able to make it. The wet spot at the bottom of this epistle is a tear. If it isn't wet, you'll know it's evaporated. Run your tongue over it and try to taste the salt. Don't try to stencil it, though." From a fellow who did get to the Chicon, tho--% all the way from Chicago! Now friend Walter E. Liebacker of 1650 1/2 Juneway Terce: "4E and Morojo: to put down in writing what is in my mind is utterly impossible. Perhaps we need a Sematic (sp. Semantic) language as Doc Smith thinks. ~~ Suffice to say that the Chicon was one of THE events of my life. Meeting people & fans with th same ideas and tastes, talking over subjects considered blasé with many people etc.; it was priceless to me. ~~I might also add that you two were all I expected and more. Two people as congenial as you I may meet from time to time, but those times will be far in-between. ~~ Bosh, I'm getting sentimental. But all the aforesaid still goes. (U won't mind, then, Walt, if we let down our hair in print--well, mimeo ink, if U must be technical!--& say we derived great pleasure from making your acquainte=ancem tii? Oh, poo, that's pretty cumbersome talk for saying we think U are a swell guy--the both of us!) ~~ If you find 30¢ in this epistle (we did) it's for a few copies of VOM. To begin with next ish. ~~ again I say--glad I metcha (Likewise) ~~ P.S. Tell Pogo hello (Hello, Pogo)" LEIGH BRACKETT, young Angeleno authoress of "Beings Like These" & others, after attending her first meeting of the LASFS rote the Corresponding Sec'y: "I got a great kick out of the meeting, and shall probably be seeing you again in two or three weeks. Good luck at the Chicon." Of our mag she had to say: "VOM fascinates me. All that simplified spelling--when my brain, if any, is still atuned to Shakespeare and the Niebelungenlied! I can't seem to find any way of shortening my own name, unless I do it in international Phonetics. (Fair enuf.) Aren't you fortunate! (For having met U, yes). ~~ Bonne santê. (Merci beaucoup.)" THE Sage oF Salt creeK U b thompsoN LinconnebR 3136 q sT Dear VOICE: The omnibus volyum, eh? Wel, the results certali justify such glutny! 2B eight sure, the tis cov-red rite strangeli: Morojo's blush, no dout, evokt by the Galle(n)t apeal 4 sextification. I can manaj nicly without the latr, speshli since most uv the atemts along this lyn mor nerli resembl the ef4ts of smal boys, as displayd on adult fare' ~~ Weinsberg ntyrli rite about the Ackermoronic (ther it gos age; see wat U get wen I try 2 typ Ackermojargn! What I ment was Ackermorojoic--'j' as in Minnesota--) intropolations in letrs. Without them, VOM's 'lusty voice' is but a cacapunny uv tin horns, huting in a hollo! ~~ But enough of this wear and tear! My brand-new, second-hand Model 12 Remington, having turned out numberless 'Yrs. of the 5th rec'd and contents noted many years before the first stumbling stutters of Ackermanese, rebels at such unseemly association
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