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From: zander@nyrond.compulink.co.uk (Jonathan Waite)
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In article , 
creek@vcn.spartanburg.sc.us (Azathoth) wrote:


> 
> An SF Fan I Thought I Was
>   (ttto: Amazing Grace)
> 
Good point, well made. The distinction between fans and readers works when 
explaining why published sf isn't influenced by "the fans", but using it 
as a way of excluding more people from fandom is not IMFFHO acceptable. I 
say you're a fan if you want to be, if you love sf or fantasy or both, if 
the society of people who think, feel or love as you do appeals to you. 
Too many groups exist by the definition of what they aren't.

In the fifties and sixties they had a more flexible code--there were fans, 
faans, faaans and so on according to the level of fan activity practised. 
I've never been more than a fan myself.

The song deserves to be sung loudly on every conceivable occasion.

(Oh, and by the way, this should be recited in Sprechgesang mode over a 
steady Am-G-F-E 4/4 vamp, with doo-wah backing vocals)

Love,
Zander


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