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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 21, February 1942
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VoM Schizoid complex? Hoax? Regeneration? Marked "More later" the damsel (to quote Tigrina) reproduced at the right purportedly comes from "The Professor"! Nils Frome young, old time fantasy fan, drops us a line from Box 3, Fraser Mills in BC, Canada: "I was quite bowled over when I glimpsed the cover design on the 4 Anniversary Voice of the Imagi-Nation—and I'm telling you no lies. Some of the usual amateur art—pretty putrid—but oh boy! That green gal! Terrific. This bevy of delicious damsels (Vomaidens Portfolios 1&2)— pity they are two dimensional and on paper, woo-wool Do I deduce there is actually some daft coot who doesn't like nudes—I mean actually? Bet he wouldn't care even to be marooned on a desert island with Gene Tierney. Ugh—what a distastful prospect. What am I saying?! As you know, the current persecution of fantasy fans by the government going on in this country makes it practically impossible to get American mags, pro or fanzines, so it was a special treat to get these. But it tantalizes me to read ads for mags I can no longer read. Its been almost as though one were dead & buried since the mags stopped coming in. I've cussed a lot to myself about the quality of most of the mags when I could get them just by shelling out fifteen or twenty cents at the newsstand--I didn't realize how lucky I was then until they no longer came into the country." R. George Viedhurst [sp?] of 126 Finborough Rd, W Brompton. London SW-10: Dear 4E: (No, Mr. Censor, that isn't the nom de guerre of an International spy. If you have to read through this letter you'll find little beyond ramblings concerning 'scientific fantasy' and its addicts. Very few cunningly devised codes lurk in these innocent pages.) May I criticize, if that isn't looking a gift horse too squarely in the face? The cover (Oct...the Tomaiden) is one of the most impressive pieces of fanart I've seen for a good long while, not even excepting the Turner cover of 'Zenith* the 2nd. I wonder about the cross, though. The girl looks too good to be holy...if you get me. Bet the Lady Tigrina doesn't like it! (Cross in question was the Egyptian ankh, aka crux ansata, symbol of (Life.) [Immortality] Nice starry-objects, and not too many of them, Wish the hair weren't streaming back so violently. Not the scene for hurricane effects. Back cover (Gifford) I don't see, I'm damned if I see! There's some subtlety that has me beat. I always was simple minded. Alack! Hope I can persuade someone in this unhappy Island to loan me Vomaidens No.1. But I don't suppose so." Reggie inquires re the Official US Attitude towards "unclad damsels". Is it really the "rule", he asks, of our Authorities, that nudes are "dirty"? How wonderful! Mr Medhurst, to live in a land of mental maturity, in that respect, where the backwardness of such a supposedly forward country can be regarded in no less a light than incredible. In moral indignation arising out of Reggie's foregoing remarks & others omitted here, Forrv aired an article on the subject of fantasy nudes to England's open-policy nub Fantast. Xtra copies probably will be available, upon publication, from 4sJ, to interested parties in USA. "I am sorry to say that I have to agree with the pronouncement of my fellow-British Ronnie Holmes (this is an almost unheard of event!) If one were to distill all this mass of letterage there would be surprisingly little solid residue. However, Ronnie Holmes on Art-work is merely guffing. Whatever one reads stf mags for (and the motives are various!), no one in his senses reads fanzines for stf! I wonder just what is the 'that' which he can get elsewhere? Does the sight of an uncovered Vomaiden arouse thoughts of 'a certain subject' in his impure mind? Shame, Ronnie! About Ronnie's spelling. Unkind of you to reproduce it literally. He only does it to convince U.S. that he carries a can of porridge between his shoulders. Oddly enough, he doesn't--quite! (Translation, please? The "can of porridge" we take to be English idiom—it conveys no meaning to ye coeds.) Anent this business of pseudonyms, which takes up so much fantime (Harry Schmarje's opus is my excuse for bringing up the matter, here). Is it of such vast moment? If people want to amuse themselves with a profusion of personal-
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VoM Schizoid complex? Hoax? Regeneration? Marked "More later" the damsel (to quote Tigrina) reproduced at the right purportedly comes from "The Professor"! Nils Frome young, old time fantasy fan, drops us a line from Box 3, Fraser Mills in BC, Canada: "I was quite bowled over when I glimpsed the cover design on the 4 Anniversary Voice of the Imagi-Nation—and I'm telling you no lies. Some of the usual amateur art—pretty putrid—but oh boy! That green gal! Terrific. This bevy of delicious damsels (Vomaidens Portfolios 1&2)— pity they are two dimensional and on paper, woo-wool Do I deduce there is actually some daft coot who doesn't like nudes—I mean actually? Bet he wouldn't care even to be marooned on a desert island with Gene Tierney. Ugh—what a distastful prospect. What am I saying?! As you know, the current persecution of fantasy fans by the government going on in this country makes it practically impossible to get American mags, pro or fanzines, so it was a special treat to get these. But it tantalizes me to read ads for mags I can no longer read. Its been almost as though one were dead & buried since the mags stopped coming in. I've cussed a lot to myself about the quality of most of the mags when I could get them just by shelling out fifteen or twenty cents at the newsstand--I didn't realize how lucky I was then until they no longer came into the country." R. George Viedhurst [sp?] of 126 Finborough Rd, W Brompton. London SW-10: Dear 4E: (No, Mr. Censor, that isn't the nom de guerre of an International spy. If you have to read through this letter you'll find little beyond ramblings concerning 'scientific fantasy' and its addicts. Very few cunningly devised codes lurk in these innocent pages.) May I criticize, if that isn't looking a gift horse too squarely in the face? The cover (Oct...the Tomaiden) is one of the most impressive pieces of fanart I've seen for a good long while, not even excepting the Turner cover of 'Zenith* the 2nd. I wonder about the cross, though. The girl looks too good to be holy...if you get me. Bet the Lady Tigrina doesn't like it! (Cross in question was the Egyptian ankh, aka crux ansata, symbol of (Life.) [Immortality] Nice starry-objects, and not too many of them, Wish the hair weren't streaming back so violently. Not the scene for hurricane effects. Back cover (Gifford) I don't see, I'm damned if I see! There's some subtlety that has me beat. I always was simple minded. Alack! Hope I can persuade someone in this unhappy Island to loan me Vomaidens No.1. But I don't suppose so." Reggie inquires re the Official US Attitude towards "unclad damsels". Is it really the "rule", he asks, of our Authorities, that nudes are "dirty"? How wonderful! Mr Medhurst, to live in a land of mental maturity, in that respect, where the backwardness of such a supposedly forward country can be regarded in no less a light than incredible. In moral indignation arising out of Reggie's foregoing remarks & others omitted here, Forrv aired an article on the subject of fantasy nudes to England's open-policy nub Fantast. Xtra copies probably will be available, upon publication, from 4sJ, to interested parties in USA. "I am sorry to say that I have to agree with the pronouncement of my fellow-British Ronnie Holmes (this is an almost unheard of event!) If one were to distill all this mass of letterage there would be surprisingly little solid residue. However, Ronnie Holmes on Art-work is merely guffing. Whatever one reads stf mags for (and the motives are various!), no one in his senses reads fanzines for stf! I wonder just what is the 'that' which he can get elsewhere? Does the sight of an uncovered Vomaiden arouse thoughts of 'a certain subject' in his impure mind? Shame, Ronnie! About Ronnie's spelling. Unkind of you to reproduce it literally. He only does it to convince U.S. that he carries a can of porridge between his shoulders. Oddly enough, he doesn't--quite! (Translation, please? The "can of porridge" we take to be English idiom—it conveys no meaning to ye coeds.) Anent this business of pseudonyms, which takes up so much fantime (Harry Schmarje's opus is my excuse for bringing up the matter, here). Is it of such vast moment? If people want to amuse themselves with a profusion of personal-
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