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Since I've been goofing on the Hugo lately, I thought I'd exhume this old piece, showing a cartoon of one. I drew this to illustrate a long bit of doggeral I had written, parodying the career of SF writer Isaac Asimov. I modeled his life after Don Marquis' immortal "Archie & Mehitabel" -- If you need further explanation, please go google it now. The original book publication of Don Marquis' poems about a poet reincarnated as a cockroach were illustrated by George Herrimen (the cartoonist behind Krazy Kat -- you better go google that too.) To illustrate Asimov's reincarnation of a bookworm I decided to immitate Herrimen as well as Marquis. I felt really good about both efforts too.
The title is meant to be understood two ways. On the one hand you can read it as "nothing is like having a sense of wonder", playing on an old cliche about early science fiction's appeal to the reader. On the other hand, I'm saying that his stuff "isn't anything that would evoke a sense of wonder."
The title is meant to be understood two ways. On the one hand you can read it as "nothing is like having a sense of wonder", playing on an old cliche about early science fiction's appeal to the reader. On the other hand, I'm saying that his stuff "isn't anything that would evoke a sense of wonder."
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I finally found a compendium of all four of the archy books. The first two are prety easy to come by, but the later volumes are only available in ancient editions as far as I know. A lot of people who love Don Marquis have probably never read any of his other poetry. I'm happy to say that I've a volume of that as well. While not archy & mehitabel, its mildly amusing stuff, and not at all serious.
What I've got is an old 1921 copy of "Noah, an' Johan, an' Cap'n John Smith", a collection of 40 or 50 poems that he wrote for newspapers and magazines. "The Old Soak" is mentioned on the endpapers, as one of the other works Marquis is author of. (Along with "Carter", "Hermione", and "Prefaces".)
I was just now going through those old SotAs and found the article in question in SotA #16 - 3 pages of double columns and a half column on the fourth page, accompanied by these illos. In comparison with the page numbers that our friend JWK has been throwing at FA, this is hardly a long piece; I suppose it might have to be re-typed (several good "old fashioned" typewriter fonts are available) and the last 1/2 column brought back onto the third page - or expand the illos to make up four full pages- or whatever.
What you had to say (beginning in SotA #19 and continuing to the end) on the matter of Censorship and Freedom of Expression was certainly amatter of greater interest these days than the last time I looked at them, being the present OE of the APA in question; so far as I can tell, Article 8 (in the current issue, #95) has been pretty much rewritten since your departure, though I would be curious as to your thoughts on the current version vs the version in effect at the time of your departure.
What you had to say (beginning in SotA #19 and continuing to the end) on the matter of Censorship and Freedom of Expression was certainly amatter of greater interest these days than the last time I looked at them, being the present OE of the APA in question; so far as I can tell, Article 8 (in the current issue, #95) has been pretty much rewritten since your departure, though I would be curious as to your thoughts on the current version vs the version in effect at the time of your departure.
I can't say I have an opinion since I don't know the current rules of Rowrbrazzle -- though I guess I could read them in #93. I doubt they would have changed in two mailings.
If we're talking about the prose-poem "Nothing Like the Sense of Wonder", no I don't think they'd have to be re-typed, though I may be wrong. I think all I need do is copy and paste them into the Journal space, if that's what we're talking about. However, its possible the formatting would be destroyed when pasted into FA. That could be a problem.
I don't know anything about uploading to my gallery. I presume one uploads MS word docs or PDF's, but I haven't tried so don't know.
What I wonder is whether anyone would bother to read it?
If we're talking about the prose-poem "Nothing Like the Sense of Wonder", no I don't think they'd have to be re-typed, though I may be wrong. I think all I need do is copy and paste them into the Journal space, if that's what we're talking about. However, its possible the formatting would be destroyed when pasted into FA. That could be a problem.
I don't know anything about uploading to my gallery. I presume one uploads MS word docs or PDF's, but I haven't tried so don't know.
What I wonder is whether anyone would bother to read it?
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