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Horizons, v. 6, issue 3, whole no. 22, March 1945

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ering fandom as "a society asynchronized with space and time a world unto itself," as long as you don't forget that there is a real world outside fandom. Fandom, and to a lesser extent the reading of fantasy fiction, are the best ways I know of taking refuge from that ridiculous, material, and stodgy real world in wich it's just the same necessary to live. Cartreuse: Most strange that Doc, who insists on the need for dynamic acceptance of change and so forth, shouldn't become adapted to the dofferences that evolve in stf. over a period of years. Fantods: Quick, how do you do two-color work in one turn of the crank? Without spoiling the inkpad, that is? The quotations in By-Ways make me wonder whe Doc Smith ever complained when some of the conversations in his story in TWS were altered. Viewed out of the context, these Smith quotations sound also as bad as the direct quotes in 01' Doc Keller's yarns. The miracle is that they are pretty convincing, when you read the story from beginning to end. As usual, enough of this issue soars sufficiently above my comprehension to be very impressive. Fantasy Commentator: Grows better and better, though I see no real need for reprinting the Koening article at this particular moment. Many of the plaints are no longer justified; for instance, fans are today more interested in whether the stf. story is socially logical than in its scientific accuracy. The backward glances are interesting--particularly when I've read the stories in question--and SaM's article provides very valuable information, though leaving unanswered the real question of why Marvel Tales was never taken up again. Wasn't "The Shapes" also reprinted in Astounding? But watch out for the censor; there's a very ambiguous quotation on page 79! The article on "Country of the Blind" another one that is both excellent reading and informative. Fan: Too bad the letters were so late appearing. McSnoyd's Bulletin: NAy, nay, Larry. I consulted two textbooks and one secretary's manual, and all three agree that Mc does not belong as a separate listing in filing systems. Of course you'll find drawers labelled that way, especially when it's a case of correspondence filed by names, but you'll also find drawers listed ba-bi and bl-by. Aagh: Just my sentiments
--aagh. Sardonyx: You never did clear up, Russell, what it was that turned you away from chess and back to fandom. Bless whatever event it may have been, and may there be many more Sardonyxes. Take-Off': I still prefer the Raym of the Science Fiction Savant. The Precipitant: I still say there's no sense in using stencils in arguments like this one. Incidentally, I deplore also the tendency to regards the dictionnary as final authority--you can prove almost anything that way, just as the theologists could prove anything by quoting from the Bible. I don't think the men who write dictionnaries are much closer to the Eternal Verities than were the authors of the Bible. FAPA Index: Long needed. I've already expressed my objection to considering independently mailed FAPA publications as legitimate stuff. I point with pride to my record, of being represented in each regular mailing from December, 1940, up to now, with a publication of some sort, and in having Horizons in 16 out of the last 17 mailings, counting this one. If only some of that stuff had been worth reading, all would have been well. Stf Comment: Guess I'll have to start reading S. Fowler Wright. I've had a halfdozen of his books for a long while, but have been curiously reluctant to dive in. One slight objection, or more strictly a clarification: there's a difference between writing on subjects in which an FATA member is not interested, and writing in a manner which he cannot comprehend. I doubt that more than one-third of the membership could make sense out of the higher mathematics in the rocketry discussion; however, I'm not kicking, as long as such things tkae up such an insignificant fraction of one percent of each mailing. Yhos: How well would the bookmark have had to perform its designated function to rate an A, Art? I'm a paranoiac, too; one of the horrors of my boyhood was Huck Finn's exposition of his eating procedure. Didn't dostak, distim, and dosh get their start in "The Meaning of Meaning"? An exceptionally good issue, marred only by the opening three pages, and the slightly too severe condemnation of Watson's poetry public

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ering fandom as "a society asynchronized with space and time a world unto itself," as long as you don't forget that there is a real world outside fandom. Fandom, and to a lesser extent the reading of fantasy fiction, are the best ways I know of taking refuge from that ridiculous, material, and stodgy real world in wich it's just the same necessary to live. Cartreuse: Most strange that Doc, who insists on the need for dynamic acceptance of change and so forth, shouldn't become adapted to the dofferences that evolve in stf. over a period of years. Fantods: Quick, how do you do two-color work in one turn of the crank? Without spoiling the inkpad, that is? The quotations in By-Ways make me wonder whe Doc Smith ever complained when some of the conversations in his story in TWS were altered. Viewed out of the context, these Smith quotations sound also as bad as the direct quotes in 01' Doc Keller's yarns. The miracle is that they are pretty convincing, when you read the story from beginning to end. As usual, enough of this issue soars sufficiently above my comprehension to be very impressive. Fantasy Commentator: Grows better and better, though I see no real need for reprinting the Koening article at this particular moment. Many of the plaints are no longer justified; for instance, fans are today more interested in whether the stf. story is socially logical than in its scientific accuracy. The backward glances are interesting--particularly when I've read the stories in question--and SaM's article provides very valuable information, though leaving unanswered the real question of why Marvel Tales was never taken up again. Wasn't "The Shapes" also reprinted in Astounding? But watch out for the censor; there's a very ambiguous quotation on page 79! The article on "Country of the Blind" another one that is both excellent reading and informative. Fan: Too bad the letters were so late appearing. McSnoyd's Bulletin: NAy, nay, Larry. I consulted two textbooks and one secretary's manual, and all three agree that Mc does not belong as a separate listing in filing systems. Of course you'll find drawers labelled that way, especially when it's a case of correspondence filed by names, but you'll also find drawers listed ba-bi and bl-by. Aagh: Just my sentiments --aagh. Sardonyx: You never did clear up, Russell, what it was that turned you away from chess and back to fandom. Bless whatever event it may have been, and may there be many more Sardonyxes. Take-Off': I still prefer the Raym of the Science Fiction Savant. The Precipitant: I still say there's no sense in using stencils in arguments like this one. Incidentally, I deplore also the tendency to regards the dictionnary as final authority--you can prove almost anything that way, just as the theologists could prove anything by quoting from the Bible. I don't think the men who write dictionnaries are much closer to the Eternal Verities than were the authors of the Bible. FAPA Index: Long needed. I've already expressed my objection to considering independently mailed FAPA publications as legitimate stuff. I point with pride to my record, of being represented in each regular mailing from December, 1940, up to now, with a publication of some sort, and in having Horizons in 16 out of the last 17 mailings, counting this one. If only some of that stuff had been worth reading, all would have been well. Stf Comment: Guess I'll have to start reading S. Fowler Wright. I've had a halfdozen of his books for a long while, but have been curiously reluctant to dive in. One slight objection, or more strictly a clarification: there's a difference between writing on subjects in which an FATA member is not interested, and writing in a manner which he cannot comprehend. I doubt that more than one-third of the membership could make sense out of the higher mathematics in the rocketry discussion; however, I'm not kicking, as long as such things tkae up such an insignificant fraction of one percent of each mailing. Yhos: How well would the bookmark have had to perform its designated function to rate an A, Art? I'm a paranoiac, too; one of the horrors of my boyhood was Huck Finn's exposition of his eating procedure. Didn't dostak, distim, and dosh get their start in "The Meaning of Meaning"? An exceptionally good issue, marred only by the opening three pages, and the slightly too severe condemnation of Watson's poetry public