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Mahope, v. 1, issue 1, Summer 1946
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meadows have their way with us; or to lie out under a tree and permit the branches to weave their tracery into our dreams. ---H.A. Overstreet: A GUIDE TO CIVILIZED LEISURE. ((HE DIDN'T TITLE THIS ONE, FOLKS)) Fandom had just finished washing its hands of Clod Degler and fumigating its house, when, in September of 1944 or thereabouts, a new menace writhed onstage. In that ominous fall, Robert ('I remember Lemuria") Shaver achieved publication in an otherwise unmentionable rag. Shaver acquired a following, and in the two years since Palmer first gave the Rosicrucian cosmology his blessings, thousands of the faithful have flocked to the newsstands. Fandom has attempted at least twice to show up the Shaver-Palmer mythos, and once nearly succeeded. To this observer it would seem long past time that Fandom Took Steps: the same Steps that Fandom took long after it had ejected Degler and he had subsided into near-quiescence. For the good and peace of mind of fandom, Shaver should be subjected to the same thorough personally conducted investigation which brought out the hideous facts of Degler's dark past. Fandom should delegate one of its mature members resident in the state of Pennsylvania to interview the "Prophet of Barto" and endeavor to learn the truth of the matter. I do not put forth this proposal in idle jest. Fandom will remember how it took Degler to its bosom and did not cast him away until it had been thoroughly outraged. Fandom will remember how that inept, unintegrated hick so nearly duped its adherents wholesale. Fandom will remember the air of innocence and sincerity which surrounded, yea, even preceded Clod Degler as he made his way from New York to Los Angeles. For its own sake, perhaps for the sake of humanity, fandom will send a mature emissary, well provided with arms of the body and the spirit, to Barto, to see what makes Robert Shaver tick, or possibly to discover that he does not tick at all. For Robert Shaver, like Clod Degler, may be more than he seems, yet less than he seems. Robert Shaver may be more dangerous to fandom than the Atomic Bomb. Robert Shaver may be a finger man for the Deros. HOOMALIMALI ego boo for other people, maybe. PHANTEUR again upholds, Ghu only knows why, the absurd system of putting two lines of an item on one page when it would have been possible, with very little thought, to put them somewhere else and save the eventual reader considerable trouble. The offending lines of the editorial could have been put on page six at the expense of white space or an interlineation. But those interlineators, like dope addicts, must have their quarterly stint, or else.... HEXAMETER: "So we can out of the Broad Street Station, and as we readhed the sab rank I said to my wife, "Hexameter, darling, and we'll ride free." ---Jacob von Glotz of Lancaster, Pa. Those disposable dishes are here, Fran--one airline catering company uses them. The cost is about one- --4--
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meadows have their way with us; or to lie out under a tree and permit the branches to weave their tracery into our dreams. ---H.A. Overstreet: A GUIDE TO CIVILIZED LEISURE. ((HE DIDN'T TITLE THIS ONE, FOLKS)) Fandom had just finished washing its hands of Clod Degler and fumigating its house, when, in September of 1944 or thereabouts, a new menace writhed onstage. In that ominous fall, Robert ('I remember Lemuria") Shaver achieved publication in an otherwise unmentionable rag. Shaver acquired a following, and in the two years since Palmer first gave the Rosicrucian cosmology his blessings, thousands of the faithful have flocked to the newsstands. Fandom has attempted at least twice to show up the Shaver-Palmer mythos, and once nearly succeeded. To this observer it would seem long past time that Fandom Took Steps: the same Steps that Fandom took long after it had ejected Degler and he had subsided into near-quiescence. For the good and peace of mind of fandom, Shaver should be subjected to the same thorough personally conducted investigation which brought out the hideous facts of Degler's dark past. Fandom should delegate one of its mature members resident in the state of Pennsylvania to interview the "Prophet of Barto" and endeavor to learn the truth of the matter. I do not put forth this proposal in idle jest. Fandom will remember how it took Degler to its bosom and did not cast him away until it had been thoroughly outraged. Fandom will remember how that inept, unintegrated hick so nearly duped its adherents wholesale. Fandom will remember the air of innocence and sincerity which surrounded, yea, even preceded Clod Degler as he made his way from New York to Los Angeles. For its own sake, perhaps for the sake of humanity, fandom will send a mature emissary, well provided with arms of the body and the spirit, to Barto, to see what makes Robert Shaver tick, or possibly to discover that he does not tick at all. For Robert Shaver, like Clod Degler, may be more than he seems, yet less than he seems. Robert Shaver may be more dangerous to fandom than the Atomic Bomb. Robert Shaver may be a finger man for the Deros. HOOMALIMALI ego boo for other people, maybe. PHANTEUR again upholds, Ghu only knows why, the absurd system of putting two lines of an item on one page when it would have been possible, with very little thought, to put them somewhere else and save the eventual reader considerable trouble. The offending lines of the editorial could have been put on page six at the expense of white space or an interlineation. But those interlineators, like dope addicts, must have their quarterly stint, or else.... HEXAMETER: "So we can out of the Broad Street Station, and as we readhed the sab rank I said to my wife, "Hexameter, darling, and we'll ride free." ---Jacob von Glotz of Lancaster, Pa. Those disposable dishes are here, Fran--one airline catering company uses them. The cost is about one- --4--
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