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Fanfare, issue 9, 1942

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34     strange interludes

that. So help me foo, anything that involves taking away of the freedom or the intent to take away freedom is not liberal.
If all men were tolerant and broad-minded, we would have long ago achieved a perfect Utopia on this earth and then probably we would have all got bored and slit our throats.
Well, well. Milty liked SLAN!DER to; with reservations. I note he analyzes Gilbert's analysis of the promag situation as shallow thinking. The Columbia Camp is deeply relieved and properly grateful to learn that one fan still thinks we think (instead of stink - boy! does that onesstink!) (I hear you talking'-- yhos)
My own reason for not calling myself an atheist is that, while I am more or less one, the word does not convey the whole idea. Atheism, with me, is the negatiwe starting point from which I have tried to work out some positive substitute for religion. Walt Whitman was an Atheist for a while at least, but nothing could be more inaccurate than to call him an Athiest without any qualifications. "Rothman, of course, was wrong..." Life, of course, is Hell. That's logic for you.
WESTWOOD WEVENGE would be enshrined in the Mellon Art Gallery in Washington as the most perfect classic of constructive, objective criticism.
Really, old pil o'mine, don't you agree with me that it would be much better not to publish all or part of this atrocity? It stinks. (If your letter stinks, Lee,then I shall be quite content to fill up STRANGE INTERLUDES with garbage--yhos)

CHRIS E MULRAIN

Just received February issue of FANFARE. I've read the entire issue from stem to stern, and it rates about 7.5. As a whole the issue was good, but there were too many columns. FANTASY FOOTNOTES and SLAN!DER were the best.
As for stf here, as far  as I know there are no fans. (Scott Field, Ill.) But stf has its readers. Amazing and Astounding are the only two promags I have seen on the newsstand in the "PX" - and then its first come, first served. They get about 40 copies and in a day they're gone.
By the way, I saw a Robert Hamlin on the roster. I wonder if he could be a relation of Lawrence Hamlin? (No dice. WLH has a "g" on the end of his monicker. --yhos)

THE LAST MINUTE

The Law of Diminishing Returns and its relation to FANFARE has finally seeped into the Widner noodle, despite heroic resistance on the part of that neutronium-like structure known as the Widner skull.
Viz; to wit, whereas, habeas corpus dilecti, and non compos mentis: The nearer you approach an ideal, the more effort it requires to attain an ever smaller fraction of the remaining distance to the ultimate. Something like the w-k catch problem of the grasshopper and the wall. If he covers half the remaining distance to the wall at each hop,how many hops will it take him to get there? Heh.
To make a long story longer, this issue marks the end of the FANFARE that tried to be bigger, better, and neater, than all the rest. The last is practic-

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34 strange interludes that. So help me foo, anything that involves taking away of the freedom or the intent to take away freedom is not liberal. If all men were tolerant and broad-minded, we would have long ago achieved a perfect Utopia on this earth and then probably we would have all got bored and slit our throats. Well, well. Milty liked SLAN!DER to; with reservations. I note he analyzes Gilbert's analysis of the promag situation as shallow thinking. The Columbia Camp is deeply relieved and properly grateful to learn that one fan still thinks we think (instead of stink - boy! does that onesstink!) (I hear you talking'-- yhos) My own reason for not calling myself an atheist is that, while I am more or less one, the word does not convey the whole idea. Atheism, with me, is the negatiwe starting point from which I have tried to work out some positive substitute for religion. Walt Whitman was an Atheist for a while at least, but nothing could be more inaccurate than to call him an Athiest without any qualifications. "Rothman, of course, was wrong..." Life, of course, is Hell. That's logic for you. WESTWOOD WEVENGE would be enshrined in the Mellon Art Gallery in Washington as the most perfect classic of constructive, objective criticism. Really, old pil o'mine, don't you agree with me that it would be much better not to publish all or part of this atrocity? It stinks. (If your letter stinks, Lee,then I shall be quite content to fill up STRANGE INTERLUDES with garbage--yhos) CHRIS E MULRAIN Just received February issue of FANFARE. I've read the entire issue from stem to stern, and it rates about 7.5. As a whole the issue was good, but there were too many columns. FANTASY FOOTNOTES and SLAN!DER were the best. As for stf here, as far as I know there are no fans. (Scott Field, Ill.) But stf has its readers. Amazing and Astounding are the only two promags I have seen on the newsstand in the "PX" - and then its first come, first served. They get about 40 copies and in a day they're gone. By the way, I saw a Robert Hamlin on the roster. I wonder if he could be a relation of Lawrence Hamlin? (No dice. WLH has a "g" on the end of his monicker. --yhos) THE LAST MINUTE The Law of Diminishing Returns and its relation to FANFARE has finally seeped into the Widner noodle, despite heroic resistance on the part of that neutronium-like structure known as the Widner skull. Viz; to wit, whereas, habeas corpus dilecti, and non compos mentis: The nearer you approach an ideal, the more effort it requires to attain an ever smaller fraction of the remaining distance to the ultimate. Something like the w-k catch problem of the grasshopper and the wall. If he covers half the remaining distance to the wall at each hop,how many hops will it take him to get there? Heh. To make a long story longer, this issue marks the end of the FANFARE that tried to be bigger, better, and neater, than all the rest. The last is practic-