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(See also [[Gafia|Gafia (disambiguation))]]
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Gafia disambiguation:
  
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An [[initialism]] for "'''G'''et '''A'''way '''F'''rom '''I'''t '''A'''ll," (pronounced with a hard G to rhyme with ''raffia''), '''gafia''' means leaving [[fandom]], because you're fed up with it, have lost interest, succumbed to [[Nydahl's Disease]] or you just have other things you'd rather do. To '''gafiate''' ("GA-fee-ate") is the act of gafia, and once you've gafiated, you're a '''gafiate''' ("GA-fee-ət")
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* [[Gafia (fanspeak)|GAFIA -- a term of fanspeak]]
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* A [[Gafia (White)|fanzine by Ted White]]
  
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Some gafiates slip away quietly or fade into semi-gafia, but chest-beating, self-righteous, public renunciations are very traditional. One of the most famous was [[Francis T. Laney]]'s, whose ''[[Ah, Sweet Idiocy]]'' set a standard hardly ever equaled. Loud gafiation makes it harder to become a [[revenant]].
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The definition of "gafia" has changed ''completely'' since [[Fancyclopedia 1]], when GAFIA was the motto of [[escapism]] and meant getting away from ''[[mundania]]'' by reading [[sf]], a coinage by [[Futurian]] [[Dick Wilson]], based on ''Away From It All: An Escapologist's Notebook'', a book by journalist Cedric Belfrage, which he much admired.  No one has documented the shift in meaning, but it seems to have happened around 1949.  It has been speculated that [[Art Rapp]] was the cause of the change by using the term "incorrectly" (according to the old usage, anyway) after the original mean had fallen out of use. 
 
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Whatever the cause, the new meaning was useful to [[fandom]] and has stayed current ever since.
 
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See also [[FAFIA]].
 
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([[Dick Wilson]]) Get Away From It All. This useful phrase was originally an escapist slogan, meaning the intent to withdraw from the Macrocosm to indulge in some intense [[fanac]], but has undergone a complete reversal of significance so that now "that flash of sanity known as Gafia" refers to a vacation from [[fandom]] back in the world of normalcy, where nobody reads that crazy [[Buck Rogers]] stuff. Diagnostic symptoms are sheer boredom while trying to read [[proz]] or [[fanzines]], allowing correspondence to pile up unanswered, and wishing that half-finished fanzines could be forgotten for a while.
 
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Oh, and we should mention [[GAFIA Press]], [[Redd Boggs]]' publishing house, the source of ''[[Skyhook]]'' and many another worthy serious publication.
 
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from [[Fancyclopedia 2 Supplement]]  ca. 1960:
 
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(Belfrage:[[Dick Wilson|Wilson]]) [[Dick Wilson]] got the title from ''AFIA'', a book by journalist Cedric Belfrage which he much admired.  [[Redd Boggs]] believes that the withdrawal of "Getting Away From It All" didn't really refer to [[fandom]], but to "seeking refuge from real life in the pages of books and magazines, especially [[sf]] magazines" -- a lively issue in [[pro]]-centered early [[stfandom]]; escaping into [[fandom]] wasn't debated much until the "[[Fandom Is A Way of Life]]" discussions int he mid-40s.
 
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