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Fanfare, issue 9, 1942
Page 29
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strange interludes 29 the ranks of aspiring authors. I begs to disagree. The lack of good material has been showing for the past two or three months, and I shudder to think what's coming. Warner is certainly an unusual person in that respect. I can't imagine any person as nearly normal, as he seems to be,just going to two or three movies a year. I don't go often, and partly because of that, when I do get around to going, I generally enjoy them very much. I pick only the best-seeming to attend, but I think I like 'em better than if I went to the show as often as Milt does. Seems like Harry would be 7th H on the rare occasions when he goes. damon's Werewolf is an unusual and effective bit, to which your cartoons much contribute. (Oh thank you, kind sir! ...I was hoping at least one person would notice them, so now I am in 7th H---ed.) I suppose you're prepared to defend the overloading of the mag with columns. Defend on, then; I don't like it. Columns are all right in their place, but when there are too many,about all you get out of the mag is a lot of opinions or odd bits of news. Few people use a regular column to put out a polished piece of fan or science fiction, or a fully-developed accountant of a fan doing, and when they do, it loses by lack of proper framing. And the way Ritter Conway's column starts off is enuf to make one turn and flee. Too bad, too; for a little while FANFARE was the Number One fanzine in many's opinion. (No defense. I put myself on the mercy of the court--ed.) Somehow I prefer yhos or awjr to the signature"ed" in interjections in Strange Interludes. (Oops, sorry--yhos) But don't follow Milty's request for fewer editorial comments on letters. They spice things up wonderfully, even if it's only a teehee. (Teehee-- yhos.) With Milton I also want to join issue on the question of tolerance. The only reason he gives for tolerance is that repressive action against a thing undesired isn't effective, and one should rather strike at the root of thing. I prefer Walter Lippmann's view, that we must be tolerant in admission that we can't be sure we are right. He who would silence an orator for another political creed does not merely take the wrong course in fighting the creed, as Milton thinks, but he denies himself the right to change his mind and adopt that creed or parts of it I think this latter reasoning is much nearer the heart of true tolerance than simply considering it as a question of tactics, "How shall we destroy the opposition?" The whole question of tolerance is much more complicated than this, but maybe it'll bring on some initial discussion on which to base a more complete consideration. I begs to differ with Doc Lowndes, too. In the first place, personal knowledge of a person isn't the only thing on which to base an opinion of him: the Miske behind the typewriter is real, too. Furthermore, Wollheim was bitter, definitely, at the time Quadumvirs abdicated. He still is, it appears, tho it's more subdued now, and DAW ordinarily avoids hotly controversial subjects. In bits like his bludgeoning, "Of course it was an imperialist war before the attack on Russia. Grow up." (from the Ackerman-Youd chain), tho, you can see the old Dictator Wollheim showing thru. Earlier than the abdication, if "bitter" is not quite the word, certainly there was hatred; not the hatred that a Jew or Pole may feel for Hitler,
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strange interludes 29 the ranks of aspiring authors. I begs to disagree. The lack of good material has been showing for the past two or three months, and I shudder to think what's coming. Warner is certainly an unusual person in that respect. I can't imagine any person as nearly normal, as he seems to be,just going to two or three movies a year. I don't go often, and partly because of that, when I do get around to going, I generally enjoy them very much. I pick only the best-seeming to attend, but I think I like 'em better than if I went to the show as often as Milt does. Seems like Harry would be 7th H on the rare occasions when he goes. damon's Werewolf is an unusual and effective bit, to which your cartoons much contribute. (Oh thank you, kind sir! ...I was hoping at least one person would notice them, so now I am in 7th H---ed.) I suppose you're prepared to defend the overloading of the mag with columns. Defend on, then; I don't like it. Columns are all right in their place, but when there are too many,about all you get out of the mag is a lot of opinions or odd bits of news. Few people use a regular column to put out a polished piece of fan or science fiction, or a fully-developed accountant of a fan doing, and when they do, it loses by lack of proper framing. And the way Ritter Conway's column starts off is enuf to make one turn and flee. Too bad, too; for a little while FANFARE was the Number One fanzine in many's opinion. (No defense. I put myself on the mercy of the court--ed.) Somehow I prefer yhos or awjr to the signature"ed" in interjections in Strange Interludes. (Oops, sorry--yhos) But don't follow Milty's request for fewer editorial comments on letters. They spice things up wonderfully, even if it's only a teehee. (Teehee-- yhos.) With Milton I also want to join issue on the question of tolerance. The only reason he gives for tolerance is that repressive action against a thing undesired isn't effective, and one should rather strike at the root of thing. I prefer Walter Lippmann's view, that we must be tolerant in admission that we can't be sure we are right. He who would silence an orator for another political creed does not merely take the wrong course in fighting the creed, as Milton thinks, but he denies himself the right to change his mind and adopt that creed or parts of it I think this latter reasoning is much nearer the heart of true tolerance than simply considering it as a question of tactics, "How shall we destroy the opposition?" The whole question of tolerance is much more complicated than this, but maybe it'll bring on some initial discussion on which to base a more complete consideration. I begs to differ with Doc Lowndes, too. In the first place, personal knowledge of a person isn't the only thing on which to base an opinion of him: the Miske behind the typewriter is real, too. Furthermore, Wollheim was bitter, definitely, at the time Quadumvirs abdicated. He still is, it appears, tho it's more subdued now, and DAW ordinarily avoids hotly controversial subjects. In bits like his bludgeoning, "Of course it was an imperialist war before the attack on Russia. Grow up." (from the Ackerman-Youd chain), tho, you can see the old Dictator Wollheim showing thru. Earlier than the abdication, if "bitter" is not quite the word, certainly there was hatred; not the hatred that a Jew or Pole may feel for Hitler,
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