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Phanteur, whole no. 1, January 1946

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8 PHANTEUR 8 list. The mailability or non-mailability of the Bok Le Zombie cover in Dunk's publication is a curious one. At first glance, I saw nothing at all out of the way, and to nearly all non-fans and many fans as well, even a careful examination would disclose nothing objectionable. But to anyone familiar with the background of the drawing, there can scarcely be any question of its obscene nature, defined in the ordinary terms. Most of the symbols would be completely incomprehensible to non-fans, I should think; but at least two of them have not even that cloak; they are universally, if not publicly, recognized. I think Jack's trepidation was justified. Jack certainly carried economy too far with this issue of FA, but he already knows that.
[image, lines with various points labels "D", "X", "F", "E", "A", "C", "B"]
FANTODS: Shares with R & C the top rating in the mailing, of which it is not a part. Why did it have to be a pre-mailing, Stan? Such a statement "makes nuts," for sure. Being one of those readers who finds Geo. Smith's electronics, both real and imaginary, somewhat over my head; and, in addition, one who is amused by the gibberish related there-to, as well as by the antics of the Smith "characters," it follows that I enjoy both George's stories, and "Channing's" communication to F. T. (Whoooeee; wotta sentence!) In the Math Department, I'm constrained, for various reasons, to start with Ron Lane's contribution. Given line-segment AB, with midpoint C, and X any point not on AB, I can draw the required line through X, parallel to AB. The solution of this problem is about all that remains to me from a summer-session course in projective geometry. See the drawing above. (Don't pay any attention to the fact that point D is actually the letter u in the word issue.) Method: Through C, draw any line. Through AX, draw a line intersecting the line through C, at some point D. Draw BX, intersecting CD at E. Draw BD. Draw AE, extended to intersect BD at F. Draw AF, the required parallel to AB. And of course, given the parallel line segments AB and XF, the construction may be reversed to determine the midpoint C. "Yesterday's 10,000 Yeats" is, I think, the best so far in this excellent series. C. B. Loomis, with his "....identical twins....of opposite sexes...." "Revista is very interesting reading, but calls for no comments from this corner this time. The answer to Croutch's demand for more fantasy in the FAPA meets with full approval from Yours Truly. -- The research on non-fantasy content and trends in the FAPA is interesting along the same line. The change of 6%, based on only two mailings, is probably not significant. -- Efty's Reprint Section -- F' goo'nish shakesh; Degler ish Shaver, perhapsh? THE READER AND COLLECTOR: In spite of my general lack of interest in stories of the weird and the horrible, and in the origin of such stories, I find this essay exceptionally well written and interesting. Butman, however, does not, at least in this first part, go into the phase of the matter which interests me most. That is, why do people seek mystical answers to questions, and accept such answers, when they can have no assurance of the correctness of those answers, except those born of their own psychological and emotional reactions? It is a fine thing to suggest answers of all kinds to all sorts of problems; it is a fine idea to theorize on the possible results of explanations so arrived at; but when these explanaions fail to meet any tests except emotional ones, it is incomprehensible to me that they should be accepted as true explanations of otherwise currently inexplicable phenomena. And even more inexplicable is why anyone feels the need for such so-called explanations. That is the ultimate

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8 PHANTEUR 8 list. The mailability or non-mailability of the Bok Le Zombie cover in Dunk's publication is a curious one. At first glance, I saw nothing at all out of the way, and to nearly all non-fans and many fans as well, even a careful examination would disclose nothing objectionable. But to anyone familiar with the background of the drawing, there can scarcely be any question of its obscene nature, defined in the ordinary terms. Most of the symbols would be completely incomprehensible to non-fans, I should think; but at least two of them have not even that cloak; they are universally, if not publicly, recognized. I think Jack's trepidation was justified. Jack certainly carried economy too far with this issue of FA, but he already knows that. [image, lines with various points labels "D", "X", "F", "E", "A", "C", "B"] FANTODS: Shares with R & C the top rating in the mailing, of which it is not a part. Why did it have to be a pre-mailing, Stan? Such a statement "makes nuts," for sure. Being one of those readers who finds Geo. Smith's electronics, both real and imaginary, somewhat over my head; and, in addition, one who is amused by the gibberish related there-to, as well as by the antics of the Smith "characters," it follows that I enjoy both George's stories, and "Channing's" communication to F. T. (Whoooeee; wotta sentence!) In the Math Department, I'm constrained, for various reasons, to start with Ron Lane's contribution. Given line-segment AB, with midpoint C, and X any point not on AB, I can draw the required line through X, parallel to AB. The solution of this problem is about all that remains to me from a summer-session course in projective geometry. See the drawing above. (Don't pay any attention to the fact that point D is actually the letter u in the word issue.) Method: Through C, draw any line. Through AX, draw a line intersecting the line through C, at some point D. Draw BX, intersecting CD at E. Draw BD. Draw AE, extended to intersect BD at F. Draw AF, the required parallel to AB. And of course, given the parallel line segments AB and XF, the construction may be reversed to determine the midpoint C. "Yesterday's 10,000 Yeats" is, I think, the best so far in this excellent series. C. B. Loomis, with his "....identical twins....of opposite sexes...." "Revista is very interesting reading, but calls for no comments from this corner this time. The answer to Croutch's demand for more fantasy in the FAPA meets with full approval from Yours Truly. -- The research on non-fantasy content and trends in the FAPA is interesting along the same line. The change of 6%, based on only two mailings, is probably not significant. -- Efty's Reprint Section -- F' goo'nish shakesh; Degler ish Shaver, perhapsh? THE READER AND COLLECTOR: In spite of my general lack of interest in stories of the weird and the horrible, and in the origin of such stories, I find this essay exceptionally well written and interesting. Butman, however, does not, at least in this first part, go into the phase of the matter which interests me most. That is, why do people seek mystical answers to questions, and accept such answers, when they can have no assurance of the correctness of those answers, except those born of their own psychological and emotional reactions? It is a fine thing to suggest answers of all kinds to all sorts of problems; it is a fine idea to theorize on the possible results of explanations so arrived at; but when these explanaions fail to meet any tests except emotional ones, it is incomprehensible to me that they should be accepted as true explanations of otherwise currently inexplicable phenomena. And even more inexplicable is why anyone feels the need for such so-called explanations. That is the ultimate