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Fandango, v. 2, issue 1, whole no. 5, Summer 1944
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BEYOND, Norm Stanley's unselfish efforts in publishing these very elaborate issues for Rosco certainly deserve a mention; there are few fans indeed who are so generous of their time and labor. Coward's Flight is the best thing in the issue, to my notion at least. There is something about the dialog that comes very close to catching the actual spirit of a dream....Your remarks on pp. 6 and 9 about fans losing interest I believe should be broadened to say something like this: "Fans do not so much lose interest in stf and fandom as they amplify their interests. When a fan first comes into the field, it usually is the first intellectual hobby he has ridden, and naturally he goes all out for it. Later, he finds other things to interest him, some of them the natural sequel to fandom, and others suggested to him or brought to his attention by other fans. Thus, he gradually reduces the time spent on purely fan projects--he may even say he's lost interest, but a closer examination of the case will usually show the interest still there but overshadowed by his natural growth. Evolution of interests is natural; the so-called "total fan", who year in and year out lives and thinks nothing but scientifiction fandom is a pitiable case of arrested developement." ---ooOoo--- LIGHT. Had my last Fan-Dango been banned from the mailing, and Light included, I would have been furious. As it is, I enjoyed Les' typically bawdy wit to the full. Particularly delightful to me were the crudely drawn cartoons on pp. 3 and 6; though a long way from being art, they fitted beautifully into the local feud. Good old Les; in some ways he acts like a Knave!....I personally think your discussion on the CC was about three months out of date. And toward the top of page 4, you're talking like Degler when you speak so glibly of "millions of extra fans". Come come....Your remarks on the relative merit of ASF and AS---well.. You might be interested to know that, though I still draw the line at Ziff-Davis, I quit buying ASF two issues ago. I purchase only FFM, WT, Startling, and Planet now...Your remarks on Miss Gargantua of Shangri-La are more or less right insofar as commonsense is concerned; however, there is a certain matter of postal laws. I was in the clubroom when Ackerman so lovingly pasted that piece of paper over the part of the picture he'd spent so many hours admiring, and know that the reason for this was not so much cowardice as his desire to conform with that section of the postal law which prohibits pubic hair. And on this matter of laws, I suggest that you clean up Light a bit, Les. There are so many legal ways of saying the same sort of thing! ---ooOoo--- AGENBITE OF INWIT. In response to the "Note To Mr. Laney", I should like to mention that, while the admittedly inept reconcilement of the location of Kadath was my own idea, I discussed this matter in a letter to Derleth at the time, and he was in accord with my using this attempted clarification. It is obvious that dreams distort reality, and that The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath was nothing more nor less than an attempt to depict a long dream realistically; on the other hand, many of the creations of the Lovecraft Mythos made their original appearance, chronoligically speaking, in this story, and for this reason, I thought it best to make some attempt to square any inconsistencies. As far as believing that there is an actual connection between the "horrifying truths in Lovecraft's serious revelations, and the amusingly distorted weavings of Dream-Quest.."; there can be little doubt that there is such a connection. In one group of stories, HPL was showing as dream revelatitons the same horrors that he showed elsewhere with "cold, unromantic reality."....A point on which I will agree with you however is the last sentence on page 8. It is worth repeat- -- 8 --
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BEYOND, Norm Stanley's unselfish efforts in publishing these very elaborate issues for Rosco certainly deserve a mention; there are few fans indeed who are so generous of their time and labor. Coward's Flight is the best thing in the issue, to my notion at least. There is something about the dialog that comes very close to catching the actual spirit of a dream....Your remarks on pp. 6 and 9 about fans losing interest I believe should be broadened to say something like this: "Fans do not so much lose interest in stf and fandom as they amplify their interests. When a fan first comes into the field, it usually is the first intellectual hobby he has ridden, and naturally he goes all out for it. Later, he finds other things to interest him, some of them the natural sequel to fandom, and others suggested to him or brought to his attention by other fans. Thus, he gradually reduces the time spent on purely fan projects--he may even say he's lost interest, but a closer examination of the case will usually show the interest still there but overshadowed by his natural growth. Evolution of interests is natural; the so-called "total fan", who year in and year out lives and thinks nothing but scientifiction fandom is a pitiable case of arrested developement." ---ooOoo--- LIGHT. Had my last Fan-Dango been banned from the mailing, and Light included, I would have been furious. As it is, I enjoyed Les' typically bawdy wit to the full. Particularly delightful to me were the crudely drawn cartoons on pp. 3 and 6; though a long way from being art, they fitted beautifully into the local feud. Good old Les; in some ways he acts like a Knave!....I personally think your discussion on the CC was about three months out of date. And toward the top of page 4, you're talking like Degler when you speak so glibly of "millions of extra fans". Come come....Your remarks on the relative merit of ASF and AS---well.. You might be interested to know that, though I still draw the line at Ziff-Davis, I quit buying ASF two issues ago. I purchase only FFM, WT, Startling, and Planet now...Your remarks on Miss Gargantua of Shangri-La are more or less right insofar as commonsense is concerned; however, there is a certain matter of postal laws. I was in the clubroom when Ackerman so lovingly pasted that piece of paper over the part of the picture he'd spent so many hours admiring, and know that the reason for this was not so much cowardice as his desire to conform with that section of the postal law which prohibits pubic hair. And on this matter of laws, I suggest that you clean up Light a bit, Les. There are so many legal ways of saying the same sort of thing! ---ooOoo--- AGENBITE OF INWIT. In response to the "Note To Mr. Laney", I should like to mention that, while the admittedly inept reconcilement of the location of Kadath was my own idea, I discussed this matter in a letter to Derleth at the time, and he was in accord with my using this attempted clarification. It is obvious that dreams distort reality, and that The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath was nothing more nor less than an attempt to depict a long dream realistically; on the other hand, many of the creations of the Lovecraft Mythos made their original appearance, chronoligically speaking, in this story, and for this reason, I thought it best to make some attempt to square any inconsistencies. As far as believing that there is an actual connection between the "horrifying truths in Lovecraft's serious revelations, and the amusingly distorted weavings of Dream-Quest.."; there can be little doubt that there is such a connection. In one group of stories, HPL was showing as dream revelatitons the same horrors that he showed elsewhere with "cold, unromantic reality."....A point on which I will agree with you however is the last sentence on page 8. It is worth repeat- -- 8 --
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