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Horizons, v. 6, issue 1, whole no. 20, September 1944
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I have begun cooking up another one, which is vol. 6, no. 1, FAPA number 14, whole number 20, of the tri-monthly terror, Horizons. Harry Warner, Jr., 303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown, Md., puts this out, and doesn't guarantee that any individual statement contained refers to anything whatsoever. Stencilled on Macbeth and duplicated upon the Doubledoubletoilandtrouble Mimeograph; September, 1944. --------- In the Beginning Don't look for the Degler Memorial Issue of Horizons; it isn't in this mailing. Either I'm slipping or the ability of fans to keep promises is degenerating. The three or four persons on whom I counted for the best articles for that issue never came through, after swearing mighty vows that they would oblige on time. And so I must apologize to the ones who answered my request, and point out that I still want to put out that issue, and shall be most happy to do it if you, you, you, and you will write the articles you promised. The running lines at the top of each page -- let's hope they print legibly this time -- are all taken from a single issue of a single publication, of which three complete, unread and recent issues will be donated to any person discovering said publication's identity. This June''s mailing has just about reached the top limit, I think; much larger ones will make it impossible for FAPA members to read everything and still have time to engage in other fan activities. If prodded, I'll be willing to vote to up the membership quota up to 75, but think that that's the absolute top, especially if that new activity-stiffening requirement goes through. ---- "...words of learned length and thundering sound..." Has anyone, I'm wondering, recognized the source of the quote which heads off this department? My hope is that I could write twenty lines or so on each of a dozen topics has been blasted by the size of the last mailing, and Speer's departure for the wars, There are far more than a dozen things needing mention, and someone has to take over the job of inserting the irrelevant reflections and answering the insignificant statements and queries, until Juffus returns to the fold. Just what, however, would the mailing have been like, had Speer and Shaw put on the spurt that characterized the December bundle?! Now, then, take a deep breath -- En Garde -- Of which two copies were in my bundle; what'll I do with the spare, Al? Despite the noble and fertile efforts to think up a new term [illegible] for fans, I shall stick to fans. Futurian is the only other word that is satisfying to me, and its connotations are such that it's out of the question, for a quarter-century at least. Even it isn't perfect, though, since the future has nothing to do with the fantasy and weird fiction in which most of us take an interest. Ted Roscoe was Max Brand? Sounds incredible, considering the difference in styles of the stories appearing under the two names, but I'll have to accept it, apparently. Al's philosophy as boiled down at the endof page 9 and the first lines of page 10 resembles mine remarkably, though I'd never tried to put it into words before. Incidentally, how about a clarification of the amount of writing and work Abby Lu does for En Garde? Such would prove useful if we ever attempt an FAPA index. Memoirs of a Superfluous Fan -- the most downright fascinating thing in the mailing. It's so long that remarks on it would require three or four pages, to be complete. I'll content myself with stating that the remaining "volumes" must appearing, and noting a few surprising things -- [illegible]'s use of phlegmatic on the seventh page of the tale itself; is remarkably high opinion of [illegible]; and the occasional remarkable instances of the undying strife between T. Bruce and the English language. It's hard for me, for instance, to conceive of any type of [illegible] store other than a stationary one, for instance, unless it's one of those [PXs?] which roll all over India in a box car for the benefit of troops in isolated
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I have begun cooking up another one, which is vol. 6, no. 1, FAPA number 14, whole number 20, of the tri-monthly terror, Horizons. Harry Warner, Jr., 303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown, Md., puts this out, and doesn't guarantee that any individual statement contained refers to anything whatsoever. Stencilled on Macbeth and duplicated upon the Doubledoubletoilandtrouble Mimeograph; September, 1944. --------- In the Beginning Don't look for the Degler Memorial Issue of Horizons; it isn't in this mailing. Either I'm slipping or the ability of fans to keep promises is degenerating. The three or four persons on whom I counted for the best articles for that issue never came through, after swearing mighty vows that they would oblige on time. And so I must apologize to the ones who answered my request, and point out that I still want to put out that issue, and shall be most happy to do it if you, you, you, and you will write the articles you promised. The running lines at the top of each page -- let's hope they print legibly this time -- are all taken from a single issue of a single publication, of which three complete, unread and recent issues will be donated to any person discovering said publication's identity. This June''s mailing has just about reached the top limit, I think; much larger ones will make it impossible for FAPA members to read everything and still have time to engage in other fan activities. If prodded, I'll be willing to vote to up the membership quota up to 75, but think that that's the absolute top, especially if that new activity-stiffening requirement goes through. ---- "...words of learned length and thundering sound..." Has anyone, I'm wondering, recognized the source of the quote which heads off this department? My hope is that I could write twenty lines or so on each of a dozen topics has been blasted by the size of the last mailing, and Speer's departure for the wars, There are far more than a dozen things needing mention, and someone has to take over the job of inserting the irrelevant reflections and answering the insignificant statements and queries, until Juffus returns to the fold. Just what, however, would the mailing have been like, had Speer and Shaw put on the spurt that characterized the December bundle?! Now, then, take a deep breath -- En Garde -- Of which two copies were in my bundle; what'll I do with the spare, Al? Despite the noble and fertile efforts to think up a new term [illegible] for fans, I shall stick to fans. Futurian is the only other word that is satisfying to me, and its connotations are such that it's out of the question, for a quarter-century at least. Even it isn't perfect, though, since the future has nothing to do with the fantasy and weird fiction in which most of us take an interest. Ted Roscoe was Max Brand? Sounds incredible, considering the difference in styles of the stories appearing under the two names, but I'll have to accept it, apparently. Al's philosophy as boiled down at the endof page 9 and the first lines of page 10 resembles mine remarkably, though I'd never tried to put it into words before. Incidentally, how about a clarification of the amount of writing and work Abby Lu does for En Garde? Such would prove useful if we ever attempt an FAPA index. Memoirs of a Superfluous Fan -- the most downright fascinating thing in the mailing. It's so long that remarks on it would require three or four pages, to be complete. I'll content myself with stating that the remaining "volumes" must appearing, and noting a few surprising things -- [illegible]'s use of phlegmatic on the seventh page of the tale itself; is remarkably high opinion of [illegible]; and the occasional remarkable instances of the undying strife between T. Bruce and the English language. It's hard for me, for instance, to conceive of any type of [illegible] store other than a stationary one, for instance, unless it's one of those [PXs?] which roll all over India in a box car for the benefit of troops in isolated
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