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Milty's Mag, March 1942
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...junk... Wherein I pick at random among the things contained within the December mailing and talk about them. Now that I look for it, I can't find who said it and where he said it, but the guy who did, hit the nail on the head when he said that we put out our FAPA mags primarily for the pleasure of seeing what other people say about the things we write. I think it was Chauvenet. Russell and I seem to tick according to much the same motivations. We both realize that we are essentially self-centered persons whose first thought at any time is: "How will this effect me?" Beyond that, however, we work somewhat differently. Russell's chief aim seems to be (superficially, at least) to get as much enjoyment from life as possible without going to too much trouble about it. My chief aim (as far as I can figure out) seems to be to do as much as possible. It doesn't matter much what it is that I do; the idea is just to do something. Something different each time, that is. I get bored when I have to repeat. That is why I keep studying things even when I don't go to school. If I didn't keep learning something new I would think that my time was being wasted. I'm like Alice through the looking-glass; I have to keep running as hard as I can in order to stand still. (Once Russell asked me what was the use of all my activity, and I asked him what was the use of anything, and he said there wasn't any, so I said, what the hell, then.) Now while I expect people to talk about what I write, I'm not asking fo either praise or condemnation; I want a discussion. And so it is in these pages: I do not intend to discuss merits of publications; I intend to talk about things that are said in them. If I ignore anybody's words of wisdom it is because they did not say anything that I was interested in talking about, or else because I ran out of space. Since D.B. Thompson wonders (in Phanny) just how much work I put into Milty's Mag, perhaps a word or two about it might be interesting. Times were when Milty's Mag was the distillation of all the thoughts that went pouring furiously through my head every waking moment. That was a couple of years ago when, for various reasons, I was thinking about things pretty hard. That was when MM was at its best. In the past few months I haven't been so intense and the mag shows it. How much work I put into the actual writing depends on the importance of the matter. Technical stuff, such as the superman and other psychological business, and arguments with Speer may get rewritten a couple of times before I finally stencil. If they sound spontaneous that's all to the good. Stuff like this is written out once on rough paper and copied directly onto the stencil. Fillers and such are composed directly onto the stencil, but I dislike to do that generally, as it cramps my style. Dummying -- never. I just decide in what order I want the various items, and let it rip. If I recall correctly, the best thing I ever wrote in my life (Science Fiction is Escape Literature) was stenciled cold from the rough draft.
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...junk... Wherein I pick at random among the things contained within the December mailing and talk about them. Now that I look for it, I can't find who said it and where he said it, but the guy who did, hit the nail on the head when he said that we put out our FAPA mags primarily for the pleasure of seeing what other people say about the things we write. I think it was Chauvenet. Russell and I seem to tick according to much the same motivations. We both realize that we are essentially self-centered persons whose first thought at any time is: "How will this effect me?" Beyond that, however, we work somewhat differently. Russell's chief aim seems to be (superficially, at least) to get as much enjoyment from life as possible without going to too much trouble about it. My chief aim (as far as I can figure out) seems to be to do as much as possible. It doesn't matter much what it is that I do; the idea is just to do something. Something different each time, that is. I get bored when I have to repeat. That is why I keep studying things even when I don't go to school. If I didn't keep learning something new I would think that my time was being wasted. I'm like Alice through the looking-glass; I have to keep running as hard as I can in order to stand still. (Once Russell asked me what was the use of all my activity, and I asked him what was the use of anything, and he said there wasn't any, so I said, what the hell, then.) Now while I expect people to talk about what I write, I'm not asking fo either praise or condemnation; I want a discussion. And so it is in these pages: I do not intend to discuss merits of publications; I intend to talk about things that are said in them. If I ignore anybody's words of wisdom it is because they did not say anything that I was interested in talking about, or else because I ran out of space. Since D.B. Thompson wonders (in Phanny) just how much work I put into Milty's Mag, perhaps a word or two about it might be interesting. Times were when Milty's Mag was the distillation of all the thoughts that went pouring furiously through my head every waking moment. That was a couple of years ago when, for various reasons, I was thinking about things pretty hard. That was when MM was at its best. In the past few months I haven't been so intense and the mag shows it. How much work I put into the actual writing depends on the importance of the matter. Technical stuff, such as the superman and other psychological business, and arguments with Speer may get rewritten a couple of times before I finally stencil. If they sound spontaneous that's all to the good. Stuff like this is written out once on rough paper and copied directly onto the stencil. Fillers and such are composed directly onto the stencil, but I dislike to do that generally, as it cramps my style. Dummying -- never. I just decide in what order I want the various items, and let it rip. If I recall correctly, the best thing I ever wrote in my life (Science Fiction is Escape Literature) was stenciled cold from the rough draft.
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