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Letters and Letrz from YOUSE-ALL (both of ya)
I was sitting in my den t'other day starching some limp rice I'd swept up after a wedding and at the same ting rincing out a few things when I heard a bell ringing. "The fone!" I cried dashing into the living room. I grabbed the receiver and shouted "hullo". The dial tone answered me. Then I heard the ring again. "Mah ears must be ringing," I thot. I heard it again. T'was the mailman ringing the door bell ... (he rings three times at our house). Giggling hysterically, he handed me a letter. I ripped it open. T'was the first communication concerning the QUANDRY ... I present a portion of it to you now ...
Bobby Pope
Charleston, S.C.
Hay Heck (or Lee or QAZ or To Whom It May Concern) ((QAZ))
Why not review the prozines in the QUANDRY? Huh? There are quite a few to be done o'er ... ((He lists fourteen)) ad infinitum. ((Anybody want to do a column of prozine reviews for us, huh?)) Yeah, I'll subscribe (BUT PLEASE CUT OUT THE SPACE WASTING HORSEPLAY) ((Why, Bobby, I'm surprised at you ... the horses on our staff WORK ...)) ((Mr Pope continues with a comment to the effect that the 1988 Krantz is not so hot and includes a typicture of the Pope 2033 DASHERDUST rocket ship. If Mr Pope wants to advertise his rocket ship we suggest he buy space like other people (whut other people?) ))
Heck Torrie
Savannah, Ga.
Dear QAZ.
Thanks for the copy of the QUANDRY ... How did I get on the staff? ((Are you kidding?)) I'll give you my buck the next time I see you. ((Bless you)) I advise you against printing any more trash ((crud, that is)) like the limerick. However if you be so foolish to ignore my sound advice you'll find some more of my poetic endevorings enclosed .....
How about dropping us a line ...? Tell us what's wrong with the QUANDRY ... (but
don't forget the postal laws) ... Write to us at 101 Wagner Street
Savannah, Georgia
A few lines from a letter from
Donald A. Wollheim
Forest Hills, N.Y.
Dear Lee,
..... I'll look forward to seeing your fanzine THE QUANDARY (spelling?) ((nope, we spell it QUANDRY -- no second A)) For the most part I've given up reading fmz; I'm afraid they're over my head for the most part .... ((Don, we promise the QUANDRY'll never get over anybody's head))
Best wishes,
A collection of comments from
J. Blyer esq.
Ashville, Tenn.
Lee the Quilted Editor Hoffman;
Just now enwt ((could this mean went?)) through a Quandry. Thanx. Iffen 'twern't one week from payday and me strangely twisted and most emphatically broke i would send a bit more than thanx. I do want to assure myself of the next issue of Quandry. And the hell of it is, Come Friday I will not be thinking of Quandry. ((Try, Man, try!!)) However i may be in one.
... You ruined the first editorial by apologising. (( ruined the second one that way too.))
... What do you mean by "undersized pages" (( I mean those pale white ones that some of the art was on ))
... Your parenthetical comments on "The Turn of The Screw" is what makes us like people like you. (( Gorsh, thanx )) Who wouldn't be interested in a history of the SaFANnahians? (( Hah! ))
Answers to the quanaui; One: depends on what is meant by psuicide. If is meant pseudo homicide, the answer is Ben Singer who committed this act on thepersonality of Bob the Tucker thereby earning for himself one of fandom's greatest reqards and undying fame as the first winner of the Fugghead-of-the year certificate. Two: who's Kennedy? ((See page 9, this ish ))
The story of the non-knowing Joe was a well written little appreciated bit of shrunken moral. Page six, no comment ((Heh)) Four Scenes on Destiny, what I coiuld read of it i liked. I dunno why but I did. (something leads me to believe that the editor was once employed as a swab pilot and paint chipper) Hoe come yez didn't print all the sheets on both sides? ((The mimeo fed sheets thru in lumps every so often - quite a no. only got printed on one side.)) Nice filler on page 8. (( Thanx again )) Top Secret was read in vain. Amusing, in a quaint way, was the poem on page 12. Page 13; Do you mean to tell me that --- Qaz is the end resuly of two gostaks having distimmed a dosh? (( Could be )) Page 15; I, too, went to school, but i knew i couldn't speak and understand english when i got out ... So i had least a fresh and unbiased mind which was open and had plenty of room within for all types of learning (and still does) and was not at all shocked when i found myself where doors become hatchways, companionways, etc; floors became decks walls became bulkheads and something else just head. Then i, too, found out that buying a choir didn't necessarily mean hiring some songsters for a wake and that a beer can of ink was an lb.
I wooden dare ask who aCkerman is, would i? Some of those west coast lads are sensitive. I knew a brand new lady fan who made he sad mistake of admitting that she didn't know who Burbee was. The end result of subsequent actions and letter writings was that said fans career as a fan was nipped in the well known and much heard of bud. ((Rose-bud?)) In short, a set of circumstances were set into consecutive occurrance that caused her ultimate drumming out of fandom. ((Gorsh, We'd better study the Fancyclopedia some more))
What happened to pages 2, ((no stencil)) 9 ((It was there)) 10 ((on the back of 9)) 14 ((same as 2)) 17 and 18 ((Gorsh, wasn't they there? You were not the first who has inquired about them. Well, for the sake of those who for some unknown reason didn't get these pages they were 17 a beautiful mermaid and 18 nuttin'))
Don't have any pity on those typer keys, next time you cut stencils. Beat the hell out of them, friend, hard. ((The weak printing was the fault of a poorly inked machine))
Most Sincerely,
((Thanx, pardon for leaving out some of the letter but as you say you DO ramble on - and I enjoyed every ramble - I hope #2 meets with your approval. ))
AND THANX TO ALL OF YOU WHO WROTE, ARE WRITING, AND EVER WILL WRITE!!!
Data entry by Judy Bemis
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