Letter from Brett Cox.
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Letter from Jessica Amanda Salmonson will not be reprinted.

Letter from Dave Haugh.
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Letter from Mike Glicksohn will not be reprinted.

Letter from Darrell Schweitzer.
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Laurine White
[ old address ]
I’m not one of Paul Walker’s appreciators of opera and ballet. My father always played lots of classical music (and still does), so I learned to like is also. Besides, some of the shows on TV had great musical themes, like The Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon (“Les Preludes”), and other serials like Riders of Death Valley (“Fingal’s Cave Overture”). Couldn’t somebody learn to appreciate good music by seeing Fantasia a few times (except perhaps for “Dance of the Hours”)? Music is something you can enjoy while you are doing something else, or you can close your eyes and let the notes create images in your mind. Opera and ballet requires more concentration to appreciate them. It would be a bit difficult to communicate musically with an alien who hears on a different frequency than humans do. It might take an unusual person to appreciate alien music. As Retief said, “A Groacian blowing a nose-whistle sounds like a Groacian blowing a nose-whistle.”

Who else but John Shirley would have his sense of wonder aroused by the most mundane of commercials? His comment of SF writers being neurotic reminds of one pulp writer’s contention that SF writers were strange-looking. I think it was in The Pulp Jungle by Frank Gruber that the author said if he were shown a picture of a group of pulp writers, he could pick out the one who wrote SF. So he was put to the test. Sure enough, the oddest-looking person in the picture wrote SF. Frank Gruber didn’t name him, but from the description, it sounded like Ed Hamilton.

Letter from Eric Lindsay.
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Letter from Jackie Franke.
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Letter from Don D’Ammassa.
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Letter from Carolyn Doyle.
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Letter from Ben Indick.
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Letter from Simon Agree.
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