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Imagination, v. 1, issue 11, whole no. 11, August 1938
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16 to orthodox English, in most places, and the biography of Fred Shroyer---and the latter seemed to be merely quotes from Fred-Erick himself. ~~ If I panned 'Disillusion' Sam Moskowitz'd only make more unkind remarks about my being prejudiced against his stuff; so let it pass. Way Out West was very poor this month. ~~ 'Mathematica Minus' was a wow. Exclamation point. More, please. ~~ I don't kow whether this error, in 'Way Down East', was mine or yours, but it should be apologized for: Young Communistic League, in paragraph two, should be minus 'ic.' " (I c. But your error.) The utter (unutterable) opposite of the foregoing, asfaras neatness goes, is a paragraph of the following. Typical of the "Mystery Manuscript" & "Azygous' " first communication. Once again we get that Old Feeling as as we withdraw from an enigmatic envelope a torn, yellow, burnt-edged, badly-typt missive. Further, this was bound with bobby pins & sprinkled with perfumed powder! & messt up with a wet indelible purple pencil. It came from "john belin, p. c. graves, eds: scientificinemagazine extraordinary", a FAPA publication in which it was misreported that FJA passt away on Feb 4 at 4:40. This was a gross exaggeration: he merely passt out-- "editors: imagination! we have at hand the july issue of imagination!. we likethedouble margins but think you would do better to return to your former straight-across-the-page stuff, which has (shall we say?) more esprit de corps, but please don't. bring back our russ to his former full-page plus glory. 'disillusion' was pretty bad. after months of sprightly & interesting articles why do you suddenly yank this doleful thing out of the bag ? and in the 'voice' charles d. hornig's ponderous witticisms fell flat after the lasfl's sarcasticcomments. ~~ would that all would-be science fiction humorists attended the same insane asylum as archibald (mathematica minus) bradbury. more of our ray, please, way down east was superb not being up to our dickie's standard howeverwe suppose you neededa filler shroyer's biog ghud. we will bet that yge did not write it. It was too much of a success. (How did you guess? I didn't write it, Derwin Lessor did. ---CDH) other series are merely punk resumes. awful. very bad. brackish wells' style is a dombination of benchley's, bloch's & a few other 1/2-wits', and, therefore, his 'who is daw?' was a little lovable. ~~ Next thing fja will be telling us the the clark after whom he was named domiciled in a gable, thus taking him (j) a matinee idol twice removed." (FJA is never idol, morning, matinee or--goodnite! He is related to one of film fame, however, in this respect, that his birthday coincides with that of Dick Powell, the cinematicanary.) Misplaced in our file was this communication of complete approval, which shoud have apeard 5th, from our Texasupporter in Highlands, Bx 1361. Declares Dale Hart: "The July issue was your most valuable issue to date--in material, that is. Charles D. Hornig's innovations were very, very welcome. Keep doing the issues this way. Use elite type, double columns, etc. and cut down on the 'simplified' spelling. ~~ Cover good. WOW shoulda been longer. Put ads anywhere you like."Flashes' very interesting. Erdstolulev ok. 'Disillusion' quite good. Ditto 'The Perfect Story.' Bradbury very funny. More! 'Filmart' good. Wilson's article was excellent. Biography engrossing, as usual. Hornig informative in his fan mag article. 'Resurrection' ok. 'Ether 'Eerios' good. Brackish Wells is one of the few reputable puns. 'Who is DAW?' was an excellent burlesque. Don didn't write that. 'Voice' excellent. That thing of mine on page 17 was written in a giddy moment. Book Reviews welcome. So I made Ackerman write the article on page 19? It was very enlightening. 'Forecasts' sound like sumpn is coming. Summed up, the issue was excellent. D. LOWNDES, c/o Robt W. Stevens, 45 Lebanon Av; Colchester/Ct. dittos Dale's closing declaration in his opening: "Anent the appearance of the July Madge, it can be summed up in one word: excellent. A bit of compository work, now, is quite incumbent; you should get those right margins even; though it is a bit more work, the result is well worth it. ~~ As to your content, Hornig'sarticle is
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16 to orthodox English, in most places, and the biography of Fred Shroyer---and the latter seemed to be merely quotes from Fred-Erick himself. ~~ If I panned 'Disillusion' Sam Moskowitz'd only make more unkind remarks about my being prejudiced against his stuff; so let it pass. Way Out West was very poor this month. ~~ 'Mathematica Minus' was a wow. Exclamation point. More, please. ~~ I don't kow whether this error, in 'Way Down East', was mine or yours, but it should be apologized for: Young Communistic League, in paragraph two, should be minus 'ic.' " (I c. But your error.) The utter (unutterable) opposite of the foregoing, asfaras neatness goes, is a paragraph of the following. Typical of the "Mystery Manuscript" & "Azygous' " first communication. Once again we get that Old Feeling as as we withdraw from an enigmatic envelope a torn, yellow, burnt-edged, badly-typt missive. Further, this was bound with bobby pins & sprinkled with perfumed powder! & messt up with a wet indelible purple pencil. It came from "john belin, p. c. graves, eds: scientificinemagazine extraordinary", a FAPA publication in which it was misreported that FJA passt away on Feb 4 at 4:40. This was a gross exaggeration: he merely passt out-- "editors: imagination! we have at hand the july issue of imagination!. we likethedouble margins but think you would do better to return to your former straight-across-the-page stuff, which has (shall we say?) more esprit de corps, but please don't. bring back our russ to his former full-page plus glory. 'disillusion' was pretty bad. after months of sprightly & interesting articles why do you suddenly yank this doleful thing out of the bag ? and in the 'voice' charles d. hornig's ponderous witticisms fell flat after the lasfl's sarcasticcomments. ~~ would that all would-be science fiction humorists attended the same insane asylum as archibald (mathematica minus) bradbury. more of our ray, please, way down east was superb not being up to our dickie's standard howeverwe suppose you neededa filler shroyer's biog ghud. we will bet that yge did not write it. It was too much of a success. (How did you guess? I didn't write it, Derwin Lessor did. ---CDH) other series are merely punk resumes. awful. very bad. brackish wells' style is a dombination of benchley's, bloch's & a few other 1/2-wits', and, therefore, his 'who is daw?' was a little lovable. ~~ Next thing fja will be telling us the the clark after whom he was named domiciled in a gable, thus taking him (j) a matinee idol twice removed." (FJA is never idol, morning, matinee or--goodnite! He is related to one of film fame, however, in this respect, that his birthday coincides with that of Dick Powell, the cinematicanary.) Misplaced in our file was this communication of complete approval, which shoud have apeard 5th, from our Texasupporter in Highlands, Bx 1361. Declares Dale Hart: "The July issue was your most valuable issue to date--in material, that is. Charles D. Hornig's innovations were very, very welcome. Keep doing the issues this way. Use elite type, double columns, etc. and cut down on the 'simplified' spelling. ~~ Cover good. WOW shoulda been longer. Put ads anywhere you like."Flashes' very interesting. Erdstolulev ok. 'Disillusion' quite good. Ditto 'The Perfect Story.' Bradbury very funny. More! 'Filmart' good. Wilson's article was excellent. Biography engrossing, as usual. Hornig informative in his fan mag article. 'Resurrection' ok. 'Ether 'Eerios' good. Brackish Wells is one of the few reputable puns. 'Who is DAW?' was an excellent burlesque. Don didn't write that. 'Voice' excellent. That thing of mine on page 17 was written in a giddy moment. Book Reviews welcome. So I made Ackerman write the article on page 19? It was very enlightening. 'Forecasts' sound like sumpn is coming. Summed up, the issue was excellent. D. LOWNDES, c/o Robt W. Stevens, 45 Lebanon Av; Colchester/Ct. dittos Dale's closing declaration in his opening: "Anent the appearance of the July Madge, it can be summed up in one word: excellent. A bit of compository work, now, is quite incumbent; you should get those right margins even; though it is a bit more work, the result is well worth it. ~~ As to your content, Hornig'sarticle is
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