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In Defense of the Phantagraph, 1945
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IN DEFENSE OF THE PHANTAGRAPH By Donald A. Wollheim Writing in the second issue of Beowulf, Gerry de la Ree comments adversely upon The Phantagraph. He said that it was stinky. And that he meant both format and contents. And especially the editorial of the Tenth Anniversary Issue. I assume that his criticism is honest, for I can conceive of no ulterior motive for his remarks. Consequently I feel impelled to reply to what I consider an unjust and rather viciously foolish opinion. I shall not defend my mimeographing. At the time those issues were run off, I was having great trouble with stencils and machine. The junior size Speed-o-print is eccentric at best -- and mine is no longer best. But mainly I do not regard wonderful handle-turning ability as an intellectual pursuit, any more than I do sticking bits of metal type into heavy chases. I regard both as rather moronic tasks, to be done professionally preferably. My interest in literary fields lies not in manual labor. To me, mimeographing and stenciling are just unpleasant necessities which I must do for myself simply because I cannot burden others with them. In this regard, there is something I should like to say about most Fapa magazines. Namely that they have been steadily getting off the track of what they should be. The ideal fan magazine, amateur of subscription, should be a literary journal. This means published material of a type as would be carried in a newsstand magazine. No matter if it is four pages or forty. I regard the quality of magazines filling
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IN DEFENSE OF THE PHANTAGRAPH By Donald A. Wollheim Writing in the second issue of Beowulf, Gerry de la Ree comments adversely upon The Phantagraph. He said that it was stinky. And that he meant both format and contents. And especially the editorial of the Tenth Anniversary Issue. I assume that his criticism is honest, for I can conceive of no ulterior motive for his remarks. Consequently I feel impelled to reply to what I consider an unjust and rather viciously foolish opinion. I shall not defend my mimeographing. At the time those issues were run off, I was having great trouble with stencils and machine. The junior size Speed-o-print is eccentric at best -- and mine is no longer best. But mainly I do not regard wonderful handle-turning ability as an intellectual pursuit, any more than I do sticking bits of metal type into heavy chases. I regard both as rather moronic tasks, to be done professionally preferably. My interest in literary fields lies not in manual labor. To me, mimeographing and stenciling are just unpleasant necessities which I must do for myself simply because I cannot burden others with them. In this regard, there is something I should like to say about most Fapa magazines. Namely that they have been steadily getting off the track of what they should be. The ideal fan magazine, amateur of subscription, should be a literary journal. This means published material of a type as would be carried in a newsstand magazine. No matter if it is four pages or forty. I regard the quality of magazines filling
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