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TUCKER
I have just had the inestimable pleasure of reading the
second issue of your wonderful publication,
Chanticleer. May I offer you my heartiest congratulations? I
fear that you have surpassed the greatness of my little effort,
Lez, which I'm sure must have come your way. I have such a
terrrible time with Lez. My horrid old typewriter just won't
function properly. The period doesn't work at all. It's a terrible
drudgery to perforate the stencil with my buck tooth just to make
periods, but I must admit that they are really pretty periods. The
stencils one must work with nowadays are just too, too exasperating
and I, for one, am just about fed up with the whole business.
However, I've just purchased a new batch from Antoine's Super Mimeo
Bazaar, and they look very promising. They are the new
burnt-orange-red stencils, which are advertised so prominently in
Mother Ashley's Home Journal. I do hope they will do. The next
issue of my little effort,
Lez, which I'm sure must have come your way, will feature an
article by Ramona Wollheim, entitled "Love Among the Slans, or
Futurian Wow", and, as your name is mentioned prominently ten or
twenty times, I'm sure you will not want to miss it. The general
motif of the next issue of my little effort,
Lez, which I'm sure must have come your way, will be one of
supreme simplicity. In fact, the whole issue will be so simple, it
will astound you. The illustrations in the issue are by Countess
Dorothy Di Wiedenbeck, and though I shouldn't utter a word, I must
admit they are her most devastating creations yet. All in all, the
next issue of my little effort,
Lez, which I'm sure will come your way, will be utterly fornchy.
I trust you will take the foregoing comments on your wonderful
publication,
Chanticleer, as constructive criticism. Do trip on up when you
get the chance. ((Thanks for a charming epistle, Bubbles. Yesterday
I dispatched a subtle combination of nitrates and acids, which I'm
sure you will get a bang out of, which I'm sure must have come your
way.))
ROBERT BLOCH
A couplet keeps wriggling in my head, to wit: "If the
plural of "fan" is "flen"
Then the plural of "man" is "mlen"
What am I going to do about it? I sit brooding over it for
hours in the MLEN'S WLASHROOM --- where incidentally, I spent many of
the best years of my life reading
CHANTICLEER. Much impressed by its Chanticlarity, too --- and
the poem, exposing particularly nauseous pieces of bilge masquerading
in book form as "horror stories" or "fantasies"
is very creditable. Would that someone persued the same policy
regard to motion pictures. . .though it is almost a waste of effort,
insofar as 90% of all alleged "horror movies" are merely
horrid, and the presence of a Columbia or Universal release-mark is
almost a sure guarantee of their inanity nowadays. Just about the
last
real fantasy film I can recall seeing is DR CYCLOPS. . .and it
always seems such a pity to me, in view of the fact that there are so
many capable actors wading through the tripe now turned out.
Illustration for book section is pretty, though I prefer less
background and more foreground. . .and I don't think it's good for a
young lady's eyesight to look down at printed matter from such a
distance. Frankly, if I saw a nude female reading a copy of an s-f
magazine in such a manner I would feel it my bounden duty to urge her
either to put the magazine up to reasonable distance of her face or
else. . .ta hell with the magazine! (Unless, of course, she was
reading
CHANTICLEER, in which case I don't know what I'd do. . .or what
she'd be liable to do, for that matter) (For that
printed matter) Anyhow,
CHANTICLEER chantickled my fancy immensely, and all thanks for
the chance to peruse same. Regards to all the Michigan rummies and.
. .remember the robot who wore tin pants! ((Ah, but my good man,
flen's not the plural of fan, flen is the plural of flan, combo of
fan and slan, if the plural of slan is slen, than more than one flan
are flen. Thlank ylou flor a mlost intlerestling eplistle, Rlobert.
You is my Flavorite Flunster))
CHAUVENET
That crack of yours about the actifen not coming through
with the necessary $ for the support of
Chanticleer touch my heart. I am hereby attempting to restore
your faith in fankind by paying you 25¢ for the two issues
of
Chanticleer which you have sent me for free. I also promise to
pay for any further issues reaching these quarters, but the rumble of
doom heard in your remarks about 'if I an to continue publishing'
suffice to discourage a more robust subscription. Yet 'tis to be
hoped that
C may linger with us many years. ((Me, too.)) The format &
mimeoing, not to mention the artwork, give
C a professional quality which is certainly unusual and
refreshing by contrast to what subscription fanzines used to be when
I was active in the subscription field & putting out my own
wretched rag. Warneratings: Michiconfusion...8, MYFFSAW...9, My
trial yer error...5, What price fanzines...7, Suthin abt burton...8,
Fubar...8, Chanticlucks...7, Those gay deceivers...7, Tree shot
revs...6, Wt a r abt...7, Bibliops...8, Lost Korus....8. I generally
take 7 as an average figure for such ratings as warner system and
stuff hasta be better than routine to get 8s or 9s from me. I rated
Spaceways for yars and yars & dont think i handed out more
than 2 or three 10s. One of the 10s was for Tucker's piece on
editors methods in an aniversary number: that was a marvelous
satire! ((Oh fi, I meant to delete that last sentence)) I hope U get
wt I mean in my translation of yer last choruse into the lost (sea
of) Korus. Er don't you read ERB? ((No, but sometimes I ERG))
Thistuff yo publish under the name of Laydschur mite be put under the
name of Laydenegg. Need I say more? ((How about this ish?)) I
fergetted to rate da covuh. Giffs 8 even do I aint suah wt de ting
means. ((Twas jst a spcsheep, radder undah wahta spcsheep, dshing tru
de weeds und ge stunken brine))
BURBEE
Got the latest
Chanticleer and thought it uproariously good. Why haven't I got
a copy of #1? How have I gotten this far without seeing #1. Please
send me #1. (I, too, go wild just thinking about #1)) What do you
want now, money? ((Is he kiddin)) Oh, well, then, don't send me #1
until I send you the money. Your mag for format, content, and just
general putogetherness whatever the hell that means) rates probably
the number 2 mag, with only
diablerie ahead of it. ((Thanks Chas, Ashley has been notified.))
VLAN SPLAWN
Say, thanks a million for that sample copy of
CHANTICLEER. Jollier than a whole volume of
LEZ! Enclosed is a small subscription. ((Splawn of my heart,
may I call you luffly? Your next "Jollier than a whole volume
of
LEZ!" will be forthcoming in a month or so. Tucker has been
notified.))
LOWNDES
Comment on #2. Technically it's superb; a pleasure to read.
Now, all you have to do is get some material worth reading, and
you'll have something there. ((How about this ish? It's not all
bad, is it?))
SPEER
The bordures and stuff are even better than before--and I've
just noticed that you supply a key on the contents page. I liked
best those for Myffsaw, Trial/Error, and Rosenblum. "Fangab
consumed the afternoon like a vampire drinking plasma".
Gorblimey. Contents are all interesting, but the next thing I have
anything to say on is Chanticlucks. Laney's letter was interesting
and a little surprising, since I'd supposed he considered himself to
be a paragon. His "Those Gay Deceivers" was interesting,
but I doubt it would hold up as a regular feature. May I suggest you
try starting your book section on an odd-numbered page, so the
lithoed insert will really begin it? ((Thank you Juffus. So far you
are the only one who has mentioned the border key on the contents
page. Have taken your and others advice; the Wiedenbeck gal starts
the book section this ish.))
LYDIA PINKHAM
Channy #2 was really wonderful. You must have a beautiful liver.
My new remedy "Hustle Bustle Neuronic Tonic" is just the
stuff for slims. I suggest you send a bottle to Tucker. Perhaps it
will help poor
Lez. Love in buckets, darling.
Data entry by Judy Bemis
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