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Mahope, v. 1, issue 1, Summer 1946
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Canadian fandom could be described as an offshoot of American fandom, and should perhaps be handled on a regional basis, but Canadian prozines should not be overlooked. in the survey. Fandom down under should also be handled from the regional viewpoint. I don't think either of these groups is large enought to require the extensive treatment due Anglofandom or American fandom. The fantasy sense and other peculiarly fannish concepts should also be given adequate treatment --more in proportion than this skimpy paragraph would seem to indicate. [underlined] Fancy Jr [/underlined] should also devote some space to the works of the hectorgraph and mimeograph and spirit duplicator. Bad hectoing and bad doing are unneccessary, and there are a lot of little tricks of the trade that fans taking their first dive into publishing should know. Wilimczyk would be a good man to handle this department if he resumes [underlined] Fan Journalist [/underlined] when again a civilian. (Some Neffites will ask me if I don't know about the NFFF publishing pamphlet. I do. I also think it should include information on where to buy inexpensive duplicators and supplies.) [underlined] Fancy Jr. [/underlined] would be no great improvement over [underlined] Fancy Seniors [/underlined] if it lacked a comprehensive index. Speer ducked out of indexing the first Fancyclopedia by using cross-reference and putting lot of minor items in alphabetical (and not so alphabetical) order which might better have been collected under one heading. The actual work of indexing would be simplified if every contributor included with his manuscript a 3x5 card for ever subject or person or cross-reference covered in it, with the page numbers left blank. Manuscript and card could be kept together until the final dummy was complete. Then the page numbers could be written on the cards and the cards filed alphabetically. The work of indexing should be kept to a minimum. I knew of a man who worked himself into his grave indexing a history of the Hawaiian Revolution of 1893. ((Do you wonder I consider Mike to be fabulous???)) While on the subject of labor saving devices one might mention the ready-made book of flimsies and carbon paper. As many as 12 flimsies with carbons between are assembled in pad form, and can easily be inserted into a typewriter. They would be used for curculating first drafts for comment and correction, or for circulating later drafts for among the editors. Two reams ought to be enough for the entire project. That just about exhausts my supply of hot air for the evening, and my bellows leak to boot. Does anyone want to strike while the iron is hot? ***************************** [underlined] A FILLER OR TWO (((which probably won't fit this revised format[/underlined])) It is astonishing, when we begin to think of it, what an endless number of things there are that we can care about. There are the organic things--sunlight and clean air, the warm soil, running water, the call of birds, waving wheat in the fields. They are good even to think about. In some curious way they are interwoven with our life. We need not be far-away mystics, searching for the ineffable unity. The unity is here. We have only to give these things a chance to register in us so that they can penetrate beneath the superficial levels of our consciousness. Usually we do not do this. We get the habit of a quick look at things, enough to tell us what they are; and we let it go at that. We need to grow the habit of a longer looking--to lean up against a fence on a day of warm sunshine and let the flower-studded --3--
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Canadian fandom could be described as an offshoot of American fandom, and should perhaps be handled on a regional basis, but Canadian prozines should not be overlooked. in the survey. Fandom down under should also be handled from the regional viewpoint. I don't think either of these groups is large enought to require the extensive treatment due Anglofandom or American fandom. The fantasy sense and other peculiarly fannish concepts should also be given adequate treatment --more in proportion than this skimpy paragraph would seem to indicate. [underlined] Fancy Jr [/underlined] should also devote some space to the works of the hectorgraph and mimeograph and spirit duplicator. Bad hectoing and bad doing are unneccessary, and there are a lot of little tricks of the trade that fans taking their first dive into publishing should know. Wilimczyk would be a good man to handle this department if he resumes [underlined] Fan Journalist [/underlined] when again a civilian. (Some Neffites will ask me if I don't know about the NFFF publishing pamphlet. I do. I also think it should include information on where to buy inexpensive duplicators and supplies.) [underlined] Fancy Jr. [/underlined] would be no great improvement over [underlined] Fancy Seniors [/underlined] if it lacked a comprehensive index. Speer ducked out of indexing the first Fancyclopedia by using cross-reference and putting lot of minor items in alphabetical (and not so alphabetical) order which might better have been collected under one heading. The actual work of indexing would be simplified if every contributor included with his manuscript a 3x5 card for ever subject or person or cross-reference covered in it, with the page numbers left blank. Manuscript and card could be kept together until the final dummy was complete. Then the page numbers could be written on the cards and the cards filed alphabetically. The work of indexing should be kept to a minimum. I knew of a man who worked himself into his grave indexing a history of the Hawaiian Revolution of 1893. ((Do you wonder I consider Mike to be fabulous???)) While on the subject of labor saving devices one might mention the ready-made book of flimsies and carbon paper. As many as 12 flimsies with carbons between are assembled in pad form, and can easily be inserted into a typewriter. They would be used for curculating first drafts for comment and correction, or for circulating later drafts for among the editors. Two reams ought to be enough for the entire project. That just about exhausts my supply of hot air for the evening, and my bellows leak to boot. Does anyone want to strike while the iron is hot? ***************************** [underlined] A FILLER OR TWO (((which probably won't fit this revised format[/underlined])) It is astonishing, when we begin to think of it, what an endless number of things there are that we can care about. There are the organic things--sunlight and clean air, the warm soil, running water, the call of birds, waving wheat in the fields. They are good even to think about. In some curious way they are interwoven with our life. We need not be far-away mystics, searching for the ineffable unity. The unity is here. We have only to give these things a chance to register in us so that they can penetrate beneath the superficial levels of our consciousness. Usually we do not do this. We get the habit of a quick look at things, enough to tell us what they are; and we let it go at that. We need to grow the habit of a longer looking--to lean up against a fence on a day of warm sunshine and let the flower-studded --3--
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