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PULPED_STURGEON

          Note to a friend about Theodore Sturgeon:

            As to his being condescending... well yeah,
            sure.  Just look at some of the names of the
            places he was selling some of his stories:
            "Beyond Fantasy Fiction"; "Thrilling
            Wonder"...  Many of the original publications
            were in places a little classier than that
            ("Galaxy" and "Unknown" for example), but
            even so, how could he possibly escape the
            fear that he was going over the head of the
            audience?

            But at a guess, he didn't really *want* to
            be condescending, he wanted to do it all; he
            wanted to tie it all together: to write
            simple plain tales with astounding depth
            that would irrevocably transform any who
            read them.


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