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Sydney Futurian, issue 8, 1948
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PAGE TEN THE SYDNEY FUTURIAN CORRESPONDENCE -- continued the poll on favourite stories most nearly coincided with the result, in the form of a Japanese hand-painting on silk of Lena the Hyaena. Vol Molesworth won it, having voted for no less than eight of the first ten -- the next nearest vote had only three. A short note from Member 4, Graham Brice Stone:"I've had a look at the SHANGRI - L'AFFAIRES and WILD HAIR the Library just got in, and I'd like to say here and now that they represent just about the lowest ebb in amateur journalistic ethics I've ever seen -- and I've seen plenty in my seven years in fandom. I never thought I'd see such unprincipled and obscene abuse in print; I hope the fans over there will take steps to see there's no more of it. To me, for all its crudities and defects, fandom is a society within a society -- a culture founded on self-respect, square dealing, and fellowship, within a culture based on -- well, other principles. "In the complete freedom of perfectly voluntary association, we can be ourselves, instead of harnessing our minds to a team. There's nothing on Earth like it, even in the world-wide network of the general bibliophiles. It has always been essentially decent -- open to the point of brutal frankness, with opponents on any question fairly, if v-he[[?]] monthly, debating their point on the open, and remaining personal friends whatever names they called each other in print. Our culture has survived the New Fandom-Futurian split, the political disputes, the patriots-versus-pacifists affairs, the Cosmic Circle, the Pro-Scientific Movement, and so on without coming down to the level of the gutter or of modern society, without forgetting the understanding and hope that set us apart from the non-fan. Do we have to go to pieces so completely over this silly Shaver business? Surely not. The individuals who have perpetrated this now outrage against fan integrity don't belong in our midst -- in fact, I would say that they are not fit to live in any civilised society." -----------------------
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PAGE TEN THE SYDNEY FUTURIAN CORRESPONDENCE -- continued the poll on favourite stories most nearly coincided with the result, in the form of a Japanese hand-painting on silk of Lena the Hyaena. Vol Molesworth won it, having voted for no less than eight of the first ten -- the next nearest vote had only three. A short note from Member 4, Graham Brice Stone:"I've had a look at the SHANGRI - L'AFFAIRES and WILD HAIR the Library just got in, and I'd like to say here and now that they represent just about the lowest ebb in amateur journalistic ethics I've ever seen -- and I've seen plenty in my seven years in fandom. I never thought I'd see such unprincipled and obscene abuse in print; I hope the fans over there will take steps to see there's no more of it. To me, for all its crudities and defects, fandom is a society within a society -- a culture founded on self-respect, square dealing, and fellowship, within a culture based on -- well, other principles. "In the complete freedom of perfectly voluntary association, we can be ourselves, instead of harnessing our minds to a team. There's nothing on Earth like it, even in the world-wide network of the general bibliophiles. It has always been essentially decent -- open to the point of brutal frankness, with opponents on any question fairly, if v-he[[?]] monthly, debating their point on the open, and remaining personal friends whatever names they called each other in print. Our culture has survived the New Fandom-Futurian split, the political disputes, the patriots-versus-pacifists affairs, the Cosmic Circle, the Pro-Scientific Movement, and so on without coming down to the level of the gutter or of modern society, without forgetting the understanding and hope that set us apart from the non-fan. Do we have to go to pieces so completely over this silly Shaver business? Surely not. The individuals who have perpetrated this now outrage against fan integrity don't belong in our midst -- in fact, I would say that they are not fit to live in any civilised society." -----------------------
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