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IMAGINATION! #12 38 SEP
VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION! (Congratulations & strangulations as Madge closes her ish" or a hellish, &, as U see, we r still suffering repercussions from the revolutionary--or, as majority indicated, devolutionary--July number.) Our Leader letter is an overwhelming from JACK CHAPMAN NISKE 5000 Train Av; Cleveland O. "CONGRATULATIONS..... upon the worst issue of a magazine of the size of 'Madgo' I have ever seen! ~~ Many a time i've been disappointed by a magazine, but this to being disgusted - or perhaps nauseated would be a better word. ~~ Although we (I) may criticize an article or department because of bad writing or shallow subject matter, it is very seldom - never before that I can remember, in fact - that a piece may be branded as being, at the very least, in bad taste. ~~ The fact that I dislike the cover, that the mimeographing is your worst yet, that I don't like the uniform type - especially the absence of the clean type on Morojo's machine (U r obviously refering to the Vogue, which is FJA'S), that the double columns lose all gain in space made by the small type - as well as being very sloppy looking, that most of your material which is not offensive is bad, all of that I can excuse, but never such things as the piece entitled 'Who is DAW'. I don't, of course, know who wrote it, but there isn't much doubt in my own mind (there should b) but what it was Bradbury (for ho is blameless). Irregardless of that, it certainly is not to your advancement that you printed, or even considered it. I certainly know that if I were Wollheim I'd certainly do everything in my power to have the writer ostracized - look it up (oh, we already know: It means to stick one's head in the ground, like an ostrich, doesn't it?) - by all decent fans. The boorish fool who wrote that isn't fit to be associated with. Frankly, the fact that Hornig, who is still an editorial flop, purportedly chose the material for this issue is the only thing stopping me from forgetting Madgo's existence - not, of course, that that would mean anything to you. Only that I never thought to find anything so rotten, so low, so crude in Imagination! ~~ Ten too, it's not only that the writor was downright insulting, but also his reference to cheap, rotten sox! I have no objection to, for example, realism intelligently handled, I enjoy cartoonsin Esquiro very, very much! But that sort of thing is only disgusting. And even worse, much, much worse, in fact, was that the paragraph from Bradbury's article running as follows: 'THE Esquimeaux hardly have any wives at all. Can you blame the wives? After all -- the nights are six months long. And (censored)! Phew!!' ~~ Thing have fallen to a rather low state when Imagination! becomes a publication for the obscene stories already mentioned. ~~ Now that I havethat off my mind, I proceed to more happy (comparitively) matters. I believe that I gave a list of thing not liked just a moment ago, but I'd like to year apart the other articles, if you don't mind! ~~ Beautiful editorial this month, very beautiful. Yes! ~~ Even the advertisements fell off - in quantity, I mean; the method of presentation couldn't be worse than it was in June ~~ 'Onward Esperanto!! was better than usual,... ~~ 'Disillusion' was all right, but I wonder if you or Moskowitz really think he's telling any but two or three of the reader's anything. Certainly it doesn't take long for any real fan to find out most of his, If I may so style the, 'Peeves'. I can't agree wholeheartedly with some of the the,, but most have a good basis in fact. ~~ As far as Hornig's 'The Perfect Story' is concerned, I guess his mind must have been one of his 'perfect circles' when he wrote it. You know, working at top speed and getting....nowhere! Why didn't you just copy a few dozen names from the telephone directory if the space had to be filled. Certainly I would have gained more information from that.  ~~ I read, and enjoyed, only the first three or four lines of Ferry's FF. I'm glad to see that he doesn't like writing it any more than I do reading it, which I haven't ever yet. ~~ I notice that I skipped Bradbury's mess. I wish you had done the same thing. Humor!, Egad!

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IMAGINATION! #12 38 SEP VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION! (Congratulations & strangulations as Madge closes her ish" or a hellish, &, as U see, we r still suffering repercussions from the revolutionary--or, as majority indicated, devolutionary--July number.) Our Leader letter is an overwhelming from JACK CHAPMAN NISKE 5000 Train Av; Cleveland O. "CONGRATULATIONS..... upon the worst issue of a magazine of the size of 'Madgo' I have ever seen! ~~ Many a time i've been disappointed by a magazine, but this to being disgusted - or perhaps nauseated would be a better word. ~~ Although we (I) may criticize an article or department because of bad writing or shallow subject matter, it is very seldom - never before that I can remember, in fact - that a piece may be branded as being, at the very least, in bad taste. ~~ The fact that I dislike the cover, that the mimeographing is your worst yet, that I don't like the uniform type - especially the absence of the clean type on Morojo's machine (U r obviously refering to the Vogue, which is FJA'S), that the double columns lose all gain in space made by the small type - as well as being very sloppy looking, that most of your material which is not offensive is bad, all of that I can excuse, but never such things as the piece entitled 'Who is DAW'. I don't, of course, know who wrote it, but there isn't much doubt in my own mind (there should b) but what it was Bradbury (for ho is blameless). Irregardless of that, it certainly is not to your advancement that you printed, or even considered it. I certainly know that if I were Wollheim I'd certainly do everything in my power to have the writer ostracized - look it up (oh, we already know: It means to stick one's head in the ground, like an ostrich, doesn't it?) - by all decent fans. The boorish fool who wrote that isn't fit to be associated with. Frankly, the fact that Hornig, who is still an editorial flop, purportedly chose the material for this issue is the only thing stopping me from forgetting Madgo's existence - not, of course, that that would mean anything to you. Only that I never thought to find anything so rotten, so low, so crude in Imagination! ~~ Ten too, it's not only that the writor was downright insulting, but also his reference to cheap, rotten sox! I have no objection to, for example, realism intelligently handled, I enjoy cartoonsin Esquiro very, very much! But that sort of thing is only disgusting. And even worse, much, much worse, in fact, was that the paragraph from Bradbury's article running as follows: 'THE Esquimeaux hardly have any wives at all. Can you blame the wives? After all -- the nights are six months long. And (censored)! Phew!!' ~~ Thing have fallen to a rather low state when Imagination! becomes a publication for the obscene stories already mentioned. ~~ Now that I havethat off my mind, I proceed to more happy (comparitively) matters. I believe that I gave a list of thing not liked just a moment ago, but I'd like to year apart the other articles, if you don't mind! ~~ Beautiful editorial this month, very beautiful. Yes! ~~ Even the advertisements fell off - in quantity, I mean; the method of presentation couldn't be worse than it was in June ~~ 'Onward Esperanto!! was better than usual,... ~~ 'Disillusion' was all right, but I wonder if you or Moskowitz really think he's telling any but two or three of the reader's anything. Certainly it doesn't take long for any real fan to find out most of his, If I may so style the, 'Peeves'. I can't agree wholeheartedly with some of the the,, but most have a good basis in fact. ~~ As far as Hornig's 'The Perfect Story' is concerned, I guess his mind must have been one of his 'perfect circles' when he wrote it. You know, working at top speed and getting....nowhere! Why didn't you just copy a few dozen names from the telephone directory if the space had to be filled. Certainly I would have gained more information from that. ~~ I read, and enjoyed, only the first three or four lines of Ferry's FF. I'm glad to see that he doesn't like writing it any more than I do reading it, which I haven't ever yet. ~~ I notice that I skipped Bradbury's mess. I wish you had done the same thing. Humor!, Egad!