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Fantasy Commentator, v. 1, issue 6, Spring 1945

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FANTASY COMMENTATOR

Acknowledgements

Margaret Widdemer's "Dark Cavalier" appeared in her Old Road to Paradise, and is reprinted here through the permission of the publishers, Henry Holt & Co. A. St. John Adcock's appreciation of Hodgson is slightly abridged from his introduction to that author's first posthumous book of verse, The Calling of the Sea, published by Selwyn & Blount; thanks are due also to H. C. Koenig for the loan of this volume. Our staff is likewise indebted to N. S. Rogers for the photograph of H. P. Lovecraft used in this issue. In the last number of Fantasy Commentator, reprint acknowledgements to "As I See It..." and "Little Men, What Now?" were inadvertantly omitted. Thanks are due to Julius Unger, for permission to reprint the first from the Denvention number of Fantasy Fiction Field, and to H. C. Koenig for the latter, which saw print in his first Reader and Collector.
---oOo---
Sudden Light

by
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have been here before, /
But when or how I cannot tell: /
I know the grass beyond the door, /
The sweet keen smell, /
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

You have been mine before,--- /
How long ago I may not know: /
But just when at that swallow's soar /
Your neck turned so, /
Some veil did fall,---I know it all of yore.

Had this been thus before? /
And shall not thus time's eddying flight /
Still with our lives our love restore /
In death's despite, /
And day and night yield one delight once more!
---oOo---
Tips on Tales---concluded from page 119

boy, his amazing strength becomes the talk of the small college town. His father takes him aside and tells him that in order not to be thought a freak, he must conceal his powers---and, being apparently of normal build, this he finds not difficult to do. But in some degree he cannot do so: in college days he becomes the greatest football player the world has ever known; and once, in the excitement of a game, forgets himself, utilizes his full strength, and kills and opposing tackler. He leaves college because of this, and for a brief period becomes a circus strong man. In World War I he becomes a legendary figure, machine-gun bullets rippling harmlessly off his bronzed skin, shells causing but slight cuts when he is struck by them. Only the armistice prevents him from winning the war single-handed by kidnapping the enemy's high command. The war over, he returns to this country, and is instrumental in foiling certain foreign agents. Throughout the entire novel this superman's life, despite his physical and mental prowess, is dominated by an undercurrent of tragedy, for he realizes that he will ever be alone in spirit, his very success intrinsically handicapping him. And in the end he does die a tragic death, albeit a highly dramatic one.

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130 FANTASY COMMENTATOR Acknowledgements Margaret Widdemer's "Dark Cavalier" appeared in her Old Road to Paradise, and is reprinted here through the permission of the publishers, Henry Holt & Co. A. St. John Adcock's appreciation of Hodgson is slightly abridged from his introduction to that author's first posthumous book of verse, The Calling of the Sea, published by Selwyn & Blount; thanks are due also to H. C. Koenig for the loan of this volume. Our staff is likewise indebted to N. S. Rogers for the photograph of H. P. Lovecraft used in this issue. In the last number of Fantasy Commentator, reprint acknowledgements to "As I See It..." and "Little Men, What Now?" were inadvertantly omitted. Thanks are due to Julius Unger, for permission to reprint the first from the Denvention number of Fantasy Fiction Field, and to H. C. Koenig for the latter, which saw print in his first Reader and Collector. ---oOo--- Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti I have been here before, / But when or how I cannot tell: / I know the grass beyond the door, / The sweet keen smell, / The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before,--- / How long ago I may not know: / But just when at that swallow's soar / Your neck turned so, / Some veil did fall,---I know it all of yore. Had this been thus before? / And shall not thus time's eddying flight / Still with our lives our love restore / In death's despite, / And day and night yield one delight once more! ---oOo--- Tips on Tales---concluded from page 119 boy, his amazing strength becomes the talk of the small college town. His father takes him aside and tells him that in order not to be thought a freak, he must conceal his powers---and, being apparently of normal build, this he finds not difficult to do. But in some degree he cannot do so: in college days he becomes the greatest football player the world has ever known; and once, in the excitement of a game, forgets himself, utilizes his full strength, and kills and opposing tackler. He leaves college because of this, and for a brief period becomes a circus strong man. In World War I he becomes a legendary figure, machine-gun bullets rippling harmlessly off his bronzed skin, shells causing but slight cuts when he is struck by them. Only the armistice prevents him from winning the war single-handed by kidnapping the enemy's high command. The war over, he returns to this country, and is instrumental in foiling certain foreign agents. Throughout the entire novel this superman's life, despite his physical and mental prowess, is dominated by an undercurrent of tragedy, for he realizes that he will ever be alone in spirit, his very success intrinsically handicapping him. And in the end he does die a tragic death, albeit a highly dramatic one.