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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 23, June 1942

Page 11

IMAGI-NATION 11
[drawing of upright radio monster, with a vase of flowers falling from the top, saying "!Earthmen coming !The Earthmen are coming"] 
Doug descends upon GKChapman. He's enjoyd his column so far, he says--"as a concentrated disclosure of GKC's character, of course, not as revealing anything about those whom it's grand to know." Also calls for clearup of the myskery why Kenchap's name once was KGC & later became GKC? '' Thoroly enjoys the Carnellograms. Carnell guy he likes; good racy style. '' Getting positively cheerful, Doug declares "Now me, though you'd never guess it I like VOM a lot. In the last year or two I've become more & more an Ackerman fan, and I must say I like reading Forrie's stuff a lot. Especially enjoyed is the good-natured, happy-go-lucky tone of VOM; I wish I could imitate it, but I just feel too bloody miserable these days, and the only thing I can do that might be called constructive rather than destructive is wish in a dull sort of way that the war was over and I could get back to work & civilian conditions again." '' Anent the question of what to print in Vom, advises to steer clear of the saylittle letters unwittily ritten. And if the older guys talk intresting, the younger ones drivel, don't be kind-hearted, cut the young, even if we want to give 'em a start. They'll learn, even without fmz; he noes some who did. '' Robts & Smith amusing as ever. He kills himself laffing at DRS evry nite. '' "Hi-de-ho." ## From his own private asylum, "SIMAD, THE MAD ARISIAN", noen in earthly form as SIDNEY M DEAN, sends his first galacticommunication via 1310 SW Pk Av, Portland, Ore. "I am getting VOM second handed at present but will correct that soon. Will join the LA's eventually, etc. You'll get no. 1 of the Stellargram, the microscopic fanmag patterned after Pons one he has in Le Zombie. (I'm fandomS poorest fan, any challengers?) '' Nudes in VOM ? WODDAHECK kinda gag is this argument ? Breathes there a critter so un-human that he (she or it) dislikes them? '' Good for Tigrina and her Voodoo etc. A gal after my own heart. '' Black Mass (April Foo ish.) OUCH! Ye Hoff challenges my degree of Insanity (Doc of). '' As for the religion, I can take it or leave it, but would prefer to leave it. I'm mystic, metaphysics, Buddhist, Yoga, Taoist, and so on ad infinitum. Mostly nuts tho. I will defend Tige to the last - well, next to the last - breath against her enyumies. '' LeRoys (Tackett) 5 senses: are there fans who only have five of the several dozen senses? Why? Why Not? As for devil worship. etc. (again) Portland is the pirate base and all the local yokels are zwilniks, delgonians, eichs, etc. C'mon up, Tige (meow) if things get to hot there. We'll hide you out. '' Too many fans don't like too many things. The louses comment reminded me. '' I repeat, there is nothing unclean about a nude except the observers thots. Shame on that observer in that case. (("...full knowing fans will see her as they will, and quite despite her dress or deshabille: the cynic sees a vomit-maiden, the narrow-mind a thing of Satan, the inbetween 'Yes, but not in a fanzine!', while the minds-set-free see an Eve from Aiden.")) '' I don't smoke or drink. I only swear ...'n' how. Dunno and dunkare what other people do about any of the three. '' If anyone sqwaks about Vom send 'em to us - piece by piece. All 10 of us local stupes like it. '' These people that drool about 'that way lies madness...' BAH, Madness arises either from brain trouble, conscience, or from overworking the mind. Most folk have'nt sense enuf to value mantal relaxation. Mind is like stomach- when itS full it'll tell ya. Stuff it and you get indigestion."
[drawing of a face that looks a bit like the mantle of a squid attached to the head of an elephant wearing clown makeup, with protruding eyes, saying " "Just another of those Ohr fen Wehls things,, By GuS"]
[Darniol?] R. [Ewans?] AUSSIFAN of 130 Brook St, Coogee, NSW, on 8th of Mar rote re #20: "I notice that a little controversy has sprung up regarding Vom's contents page. My own impression of this page is that it is one of the most consistently clever pages of the entire magazine. I like it. There is no way to make better use of Vom's contents page, unless of course you would care to paste a few dollar bills on it; so keep it as it is. To dispense with it means the first step towards the end of Vom. '' Most of Sydney's Futurians are now in khaki. I have in my box of rejection slips, my medically exempt certificate. Me I'm like Ambrose Bierce I suffer with asthma -- all of us genius chaps suffer from asthma -- to name but a few,,,Orson Welles (The Martians are coming).

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IMAGI-NATION 11 [drawing of upright radio monster, with a vase of flowers falling from the top, saying "!Earthmen coming !The Earthmen are coming"] Doug descends upon GKChapman. He's enjoyd his column so far, he says--"as a concentrated disclosure of GKC's character, of course, not as revealing anything about those whom it's grand to know." Also calls for clearup of the myskery why Kenchap's name once was KGC & later became GKC? '' Thoroly enjoys the Carnellograms. Carnell guy he likes; good racy style. '' Getting positively cheerful, Doug declares "Now me, though you'd never guess it I like VOM a lot. In the last year or two I've become more & more an Ackerman fan, and I must say I like reading Forrie's stuff a lot. Especially enjoyed is the good-natured, happy-go-lucky tone of VOM; I wish I could imitate it, but I just feel too bloody miserable these days, and the only thing I can do that might be called constructive rather than destructive is wish in a dull sort of way that the war was over and I could get back to work & civilian conditions again." '' Anent the question of what to print in Vom, advises to steer clear of the saylittle letters unwittily ritten. And if the older guys talk intresting, the younger ones drivel, don't be kind-hearted, cut the young, even if we want to give 'em a start. They'll learn, even without fmz; he noes some who did. '' Robts & Smith amusing as ever. He kills himself laffing at DRS evry nite. '' "Hi-de-ho." ## From his own private asylum, "SIMAD, THE MAD ARISIAN", noen in earthly form as SIDNEY M DEAN, sends his first galacticommunication via 1310 SW Pk Av, Portland, Ore. "I am getting VOM second handed at present but will correct that soon. Will join the LA's eventually, etc. You'll get no. 1 of the Stellargram, the microscopic fanmag patterned after Pons one he has in Le Zombie. (I'm fandomS poorest fan, any challengers?) '' Nudes in VOM ? WODDAHECK kinda gag is this argument ? Breathes there a critter so un-human that he (she or it) dislikes them? '' Good for Tigrina and her Voodoo etc. A gal after my own heart. '' Black Mass (April Foo ish.) OUCH! Ye Hoff challenges my degree of Insanity (Doc of). '' As for the religion, I can take it or leave it, but would prefer to leave it. I'm mystic, metaphysics, Buddhist, Yoga, Taoist, and so on ad infinitum. Mostly nuts tho. I will defend Tige to the last - well, next to the last - breath against her enyumies. '' LeRoys (Tackett) 5 senses: are there fans who only have five of the several dozen senses? Why? Why Not? As for devil worship. etc. (again) Portland is the pirate base and all the local yokels are zwilniks, delgonians, eichs, etc. C'mon up, Tige (meow) if things get to hot there. We'll hide you out. '' Too many fans don't like too many things. The louses comment reminded me. '' I repeat, there is nothing unclean about a nude except the observers thots. Shame on that observer in that case. (("...full knowing fans will see her as they will, and quite despite her dress or deshabille: the cynic sees a vomit-maiden, the narrow-mind a thing of Satan, the inbetween 'Yes, but not in a fanzine!', while the minds-set-free see an Eve from Aiden.")) '' I don't smoke or drink. I only swear ...'n' how. Dunno and dunkare what other people do about any of the three. '' If anyone sqwaks about Vom send 'em to us - piece by piece. All 10 of us local stupes like it. '' These people that drool about 'that way lies madness...' BAH, Madness arises either from brain trouble, conscience, or from overworking the mind. Most folk have'nt sense enuf to value mantal relaxation. Mind is like stomach- when itS full it'll tell ya. Stuff it and you get indigestion." [drawing of a face that looks a bit like the mantle of a squid attached to the head of an elephant wearing clown makeup, with protruding eyes, saying " "Just another of those Ohr fen Wehls things,, By GuS"] [Darniol?] R. [Ewans?] AUSSIFAN of 130 Brook St, Coogee, NSW, on 8th of Mar rote re #20: "I notice that a little controversy has sprung up regarding Vom's contents page. My own impression of this page is that it is one of the most consistently clever pages of the entire magazine. I like it. There is no way to make better use of Vom's contents page, unless of course you would care to paste a few dollar bills on it; so keep it as it is. To dispense with it means the first step towards the end of Vom. '' Most of Sydney's Futurians are now in khaki. I have in my box of rejection slips, my medically exempt certificate. Me I'm like Ambrose Bierce I suffer with asthma -- all of us genius chaps suffer from asthma -- to name but a few,,,Orson Welles (The Martians are coming).