MOONSHINE NO. 3 Some light in the darkness from John F. Burke, 57 Beauclair. Drive, Liverpool 15. Distributed by JMRosenblum. THE ELDER GODS Often I have felt the influence of the Elder Gods. It may have been while sitting on a cliff over the sea. Or as pondered vaguely, walking alone in the rain; or perhaps, nodded deeply in a soft chair beside the enveloping warmth of a fire, when utter peace comes with the radio's low opiate music. Then the Elder Gods speak from the ultimate deeps of spaces vaguely imagined, from behind and beyond the palely-flaming nebular splatches, from out where the light quanta grow weary, lagging arrow-like through the black abysms of nothing. Through my mind come the echoing thoughts from these other times and spaces - slow-throbbing waves of pure thought carrying tremendous messages. I often wonder whether our less fortunate brethren, those classed by their ignorant fellows as "lunatics", unstable of mind, schizophrenes, divided personalities - whether they too are very often in a sublime ecstasy, exchanging hesitant messages with immense intelligences across the deepest gulfs of eternity. Sometimes a hint of meaning flashes before me for a second and I grasp at the unimaginable import of an instant's rapport. "Iä! Iä! Wza-y'ei!" say the voices. "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh wgah' Cthulhu R'lyeh nagl fhtagn... Iä! .... Yog-Sothoth cf 'ayak vulgtmm.... Shaggai ..yggh... ly... Rhan Tegoth! ... Ai! Cthulhu naflfthagn..." D.W. NON-FANTASY BOOKS From Maurice K. Hanson: The first six that come to my mind are: "But For the Grace of God" (J.W.N. Sullivan); "The Old Wives' Tale" (Arnold Bennett); "The Journal of a Disappointed Man' (Barbellion); Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences" (J.B.S. Haldane), "Love on the Dole " (Walter Greenwood); "Beethoven"(Sullivan again). So sorry that Eric Hopkins and Thomas Mann feel so badly, but no doubt the laws of probability (or Fate if you like) have treated them less kindly than they have me). And you, I fancy should know that masochistic song - "Ah! Sweet Misery of Life". From Eric C. Hopkins: - John Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga" (a trilogy actually, but you can take it); Jaroslav Hasek's "The Good Soldier Schweik"; Osbert Sitwell's "Triple Fugue"; G. K. Chesterton's "Flying Inn"; Phyllis Bottome's "Freedom Farewell!" and Graham Greene's "It's a Battlefield". How about one's six choices in music? THE FANTAST Fans will doubtless be surprised, not to say amazed by an announcement recently issued by CSYoud to the effect that THE FANTAST will appear again in a short time. Says Sam: "I have stencilled four pages of FANTAST and hope to get the rest done some day." Dave McIlwain also says proudly, but a trifle warily, obviously expecting the response he was certainly accorded after he had spoken: "The next issue of the GARGOYLE is nearly finished". What stirring times we live in, to be sure!
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	HAIL AND FAREWELL The dreamer sat on the porch one night And looked at the heavens in their glorious might; His thoughts, though those of an Earthbound man, Comprehended the Celestial plan. He understood why Man was born, To be the Cosmos' weed and thorn; His mind belonged to a greater race, But where they dwelt he could not place. One night from out the Heavens above Came a glowing thought of Eternal love; His race he found in the star-lit skies, But still could not see them with his eyes. He left one day for parts unknown: The Wanderer had found his throne. Hail, my Wanderer, Hail, your Throne, Farewell as you start to travel home. And when you get there, think of me, Forever lost in Eternity Of Hell on Earth, of Hell below, Think of me Wanderer with eyes aglow. For I am in what you have left, I remain here, stricken, bereft, Think of me Wanderer, whene'er you can, I say, "Hail, Wanderer, Farewell, Man." "RENNY" SAYINGS OF THE GREAT: Robert W. Lowndes: The instigator of wars, big wars, has always been a particular class which either owned everything or was the boss. So far as our own times go, war is nothing more than a commercial venture. At a certain point in business development throughout the world, it comes to a point when there is a huge surplus of goods which cannot be sold, money which cannot be invested, and millions of people who cannot be given jobs. Then is the time that a country goes to war. It is the best possible way of getting rid of surpluses profitably... When you have too much food, you burn it or destroy it; when you have too many unemployed, you burn them up in war and burn up the passions of those who would otherwise revolt with war hysteria. Shift the blame on to the terrible Nazis or the terrible reds or the terrible Jews or anyone. George Bernard Shaw: It is a funny place, this world of Capitalism, with its astonishing spread of ignorance and helplessness, boasting all the time of its spread of education and enlightenment.... There stand the thousands of property owners and the millions of the wage workers, none of them able to make anything, none of them knowing what to do until somebody tells them, none of them having the least notion of how it is that they find people paying them money, and things in the shops to buy with it...............
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