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Imagination, v. 1, issue 4, whole no. 4, January 1938

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Imagination: #4 38 Jan.         17

Madge II that you promised?  (Sorry, insufficient space.  But I am flatterd that U'd cared to've read my 2d saga. --Madge) ~~ And who, incidentally, are three-fourths of the people mentioned?  Esperantists? (U hav the wrong ratio; it's four thirds.) ~~ Suggestion for Foo: 'Tis indelibly impressed in slabs of soap.'  Ghoom-by."

Some lines from a 11 pg handwritten letter from R. Baker of Vancouver-BC/Canada:  "Just 2 words or maybe 3 on your Nov. No. Why do you modestly style yourselves dopes? I always understood dopyness to be the 
result of too much carbon dioxide whereas the style of Madge suggests more to my mind; a frivolously brought-up lunatic writing under the influence of a blast of pure oxygen. ~~ You promise us a saga of the second next month.  There never will be such an experience for you as the making of the first (we hope not!) -- you know there never is.  The third 4th 5th etc will be just the monthly grind. (Reader RB is wrong. To me & my associates every issue has been an experience--a happy one--lotsa headaches, but somehow the boys manage to keep goodhumord. Had we more rm we easily might introduce a Saga-cious column, so to speak, recounting the errors & inspirations of each issue. A particularly funny memory of Madge #2 is Roy Squires' transposition, in stencilling a pg of "Hazy", of the "i" in the "solid", so that "solid steel" became Ackermanese "soiled steel"! before the mistake, which swept us into gales of merriment at the time, was corrected. The history of "Hazy Hord" illustration, instalment, 2, is interesting, too. &, forecasting a fauxpas, the "harmless ghoul" that "Stimmy" turnd into a "hamless ghoul"! in typing rearrangement of Ryner's "Advice to Amateur Magicians" preparatory to stenciling..."Madge".) ~~ The narrow minded little creature which you style atom-Ed (we assume any similarity to a caustic commentator Richard Wilson Jr, who edits fanmag "Atom", purely is coincidental?) objects to Esperanto & condensed spelling does he! never min he's more to be pitied than laughed at -- in the blood probably.  his daddy was a respectable small-tradesman no doubt who didn't believe in Flying-machines - by gum no! & his grandaddy, far enough back; was probably well-forward in the front row when the witch-burnings took place. However you might hint to Eddy that in the twentieth century the ability to sign your own name legibly is not considered inconsistent with a belief in ghosts & lucky-days (see his signature in Nov. Image (his sig may be seen below)) & tell him to compare it with min

Richard Wilson of Richmond Hill NY writes:  "The third IMAGINATION: having arrived, and having been read, I duly---and perhaps dully ---go about letting you have my opinion of it, whether of not you care. ~~ 'Her Infinite Variety' may've been all right as a radio drama, but put into print and futuritistically disfigured, it shares the fate (at least the fate I assign to:) 'The Hazy Hord' which I contend is a waste of both time and space. ~~ Kuttner's 'Fantascience Filmart' is excellent this month. He should take this away form J altogether. Let's have more of Hank's stuff. He has an exciting style. ~~ Even the book review is good this time. Be sure to let us know when 'Die Flug in die Erde' gets its English translation. Let the readers' column go full blast. ~~ I enclose a quarter for the next three issues of I:"

Robert Block mail is a word from Milwaukee/Wisc.:  "Friend Kuttner kindly forwarded me a copy of IMAGINATION - and needless to say, I was delighted with the magazine. It has the air of professional quality in both its format and articles, and a deciphering of its ideographs is well worth while."

(Have U ever read a letter & wisht to contact its author--but unfortunately the adres was lacking? We often have felt that feeling of frustration, &, in order this unsatisfactory attribute should not mar "Madge's" character, henceforward we shall publish each writer's residence.  In the event any individual should with this info witheld, it will be necessary only to initial communicaiton "PWA": Please Withold Adres. -- Staff...)

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Imagination: #4 38 Jan. 17 Madge II that you promised? (Sorry, insufficient space. But I am flatterd that U'd cared to've read my 2d saga. --Madge) ~~ And who, incidentally, are three-fourths of the people mentioned? Esperantists? (U hav the wrong ratio; it's four thirds.) ~~ Suggestion for Foo: 'Tis indelibly impressed in slabs of soap.' Ghoom-by." Some lines from a 11 pg handwritten letter from R. Baker of Vancouver-BC/Canada: "Just 2 words or maybe 3 on your Nov. No. Why do you modestly style yourselves dopes? I always understood dopyness to be the result of too much carbon dioxide whereas the style of Madge suggests more to my mind; a frivolously brought-up lunatic writing under the influence of a blast of pure oxygen. ~~ You promise us a saga of the second next month. There never will be such an experience for you as the making of the first (we hope not!) -- you know there never is. The third 4th 5th etc will be just the monthly grind. (Reader RB is wrong. To me & my associates every issue has been an experience--a happy one--lotsa headaches, but somehow the boys manage to keep goodhumord. Had we more rm we easily might introduce a Saga-cious column, so to speak, recounting the errors & inspirations of each issue. A particularly funny memory of Madge #2 is Roy Squires' transposition, in stencilling a pg of "Hazy", of the "i" in the "solid", so that "solid steel" became Ackermanese "soiled steel"! before the mistake, which swept us into gales of merriment at the time, was corrected. The history of "Hazy Hord" illustration, instalment, 2, is interesting, too. &, forecasting a fauxpas, the "harmless ghoul" that "Stimmy" turnd into a "hamless ghoul"! in typing rearrangement of Ryner's "Advice to Amateur Magicians" preparatory to stenciling..."Madge".) ~~ The narrow minded little creature which you style atom-Ed (we assume any similarity to a caustic commentator Richard Wilson Jr, who edits fanmag "Atom", purely is coincidental?) objects to Esperanto & condensed spelling does he! never min he's more to be pitied than laughed at -- in the blood probably. his daddy was a respectable small-tradesman no doubt who didn't believe in Flying-machines - by gum no! & his grandaddy, far enough back; was probably well-forward in the front row when the witch-burnings took place. However you might hint to Eddy that in the twentieth century the ability to sign your own name legibly is not considered inconsistent with a belief in ghosts & lucky-days (see his signature in Nov. Image (his sig may be seen below)) & tell him to compare it with min Richard Wilson of Richmond Hill NY writes: "The third IMAGINATION: having arrived, and having been read, I duly---and perhaps dully ---go about letting you have my opinion of it, whether of not you care. ~~ 'Her Infinite Variety' may've been all right as a radio drama, but put into print and futuritistically disfigured, it shares the fate (at least the fate I assign to:) 'The Hazy Hord' which I contend is a waste of both time and space. ~~ Kuttner's 'Fantascience Filmart' is excellent this month. He should take this away form J altogether. Let's have more of Hank's stuff. He has an exciting style. ~~ Even the book review is good this time. Be sure to let us know when 'Die Flug in die Erde' gets its English translation. Let the readers' column go full blast. ~~ I enclose a quarter for the next three issues of I:" Robert Block mail is a word from Milwaukee/Wisc.: "Friend Kuttner kindly forwarded me a copy of IMAGINATION - and needless to say, I was delighted with the magazine. It has the air of professional quality in both its format and articles, and a deciphering of its ideographs is well worth while." (Have U ever read a letter & wisht to contact its author--but unfortunately the adres was lacking? We often have felt that feeling of frustration, &, in order this unsatisfactory attribute should not mar "Madge's" character, henceforward we shall publish each writer's residence. In the event any individual should with this info witheld, it will be necessary only to initial communicaiton "PWA": Please Withold Adres. -- Staff...)