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Phantagraph, v. 11, issue 4, March 1944
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2-------the phantagraph---------- thing. Nobody bothers with it now. The book had no lasting value; it was nothing lost, it now seems. The same is true of 99 % of current best-selling literature. If it is non-fiction, it usually will not stand the test of two years' passage; if it is fiction it will not be remembered either after two years. Those books that are worth while can be encompassed in plenty of time after the fan has passed out of his phase of concentrated fantasy. There are perhaps thirty books or so in literature that could be regarded as worth reading. Real American or English literature does not actually date back more than a century in readable sane literature. Shakespeare, a handful of Nineteenth Century authors, an assortment of Twentieth Century writers, That's all for a minimum that would keep any fan up to snuff in non-fantasy literature. Fans shouldn't feel conscience-stricken when they haven't read stuff people are raving about. If it's good, it'll keep. If it isn't good, your eyesight can find more interesting use. LINES OF AN UNFINISHED POEM By Roy St. John CeClaire Softly the synthetic moon Hurtling over plains of grey Sets its corporeal tune At the end of Martian day. Out of arbors, rocky, drear, There sprouts be new-born fuzz. Their twin-antlered heads appear; They emit the warning buzz. The slippered beast that stalks at night Lays now its nose to grasses blue The spo
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2-------the phantagraph---------- thing. Nobody bothers with it now. The book had no lasting value; it was nothing lost, it now seems. The same is true of 99 % of current best-selling literature. If it is non-fiction, it usually will not stand the test of two years' passage; if it is fiction it will not be remembered either after two years. Those books that are worth while can be encompassed in plenty of time after the fan has passed out of his phase of concentrated fantasy. There are perhaps thirty books or so in literature that could be regarded as worth reading. Real American or English literature does not actually date back more than a century in readable sane literature. Shakespeare, a handful of Nineteenth Century authors, an assortment of Twentieth Century writers, That's all for a minimum that would keep any fan up to snuff in non-fantasy literature. Fans shouldn't feel conscience-stricken when they haven't read stuff people are raving about. If it's good, it'll keep. If it isn't good, your eyesight can find more interesting use. LINES OF AN UNFINISHED POEM By Roy St. John CeClaire Softly the synthetic moon Hurtling over plains of grey Sets its corporeal tune At the end of Martian day. Out of arbors, rocky, drear, There sprouts be new-born fuzz. Their twin-antlered heads appear; They emit the warning buzz. The slippered beast that stalks at night Lays now its nose to grasses blue The spo
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