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Phantagraph, v. 11, issue 2, October 1943
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4 the phantagraph magazine Koenig's evidence has now reached the point where his original thesis is refuted. What is proven is that "hiss" has a meaning in accepted current usage not yet noticed by the lexicographers. What Mr. Koenig should do is to present his data to these persons and bring it to their attention. In that way he can perform a service to the accountants of our national tongue. An attitude of opposition to the term has simply become senseless and somewhat childish. ----------------------------------------------------------------- GLANCE INTO THE FUTURE The year of Grace 1942 -- I am standing on Shakspere's Cliff, or what remains of it, wondering at the ruins of the railroad, and waiting for the daily post from Australasia. I see a speck in the clouds, and hail the harbinger of news. The postman alights for half-a-second (his regulation breathing time), folds his caoutchoue wings, sucks in a concentrated lozenge the virtues of a quart of London porter, blows his nose with an asbestos pocket handkerchief, and is off again like a rocket, before I have seen whether my letters have the postmark of Adelaide or of Sydney. --Ainsworth's Magazine (Britain, 1842) ----------------------------------------------------------------- FOR SALE: A copy in excellent condition of Clark Ashton Smith's first volume of poetry, THE STAR-TRADER (1912), 100 pages of magnificent fantasy. $4.00. D.A.Wollheim
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4 the phantagraph magazine Koenig's evidence has now reached the point where his original thesis is refuted. What is proven is that "hiss" has a meaning in accepted current usage not yet noticed by the lexicographers. What Mr. Koenig should do is to present his data to these persons and bring it to their attention. In that way he can perform a service to the accountants of our national tongue. An attitude of opposition to the term has simply become senseless and somewhat childish. ----------------------------------------------------------------- GLANCE INTO THE FUTURE The year of Grace 1942 -- I am standing on Shakspere's Cliff, or what remains of it, wondering at the ruins of the railroad, and waiting for the daily post from Australasia. I see a speck in the clouds, and hail the harbinger of news. The postman alights for half-a-second (his regulation breathing time), folds his caoutchoue wings, sucks in a concentrated lozenge the virtues of a quart of London porter, blows his nose with an asbestos pocket handkerchief, and is off again like a rocket, before I have seen whether my letters have the postmark of Adelaide or of Sydney. --Ainsworth's Magazine (Britain, 1842) ----------------------------------------------------------------- FOR SALE: A copy in excellent condition of Clark Ashton Smith's first volume of poetry, THE STAR-TRADER (1912), 100 pages of magnificent fantasy. $4.00. D.A.Wollheim
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