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The kind that [[fans]] have – or at least claim to. First used to describe the mind set of [[fans]] by [[Margaret St. Clair]] in a 1948 article in ''Writer's Digest'', it was quickly picked up and used tongue-in-cheek in numerous [[fanzines]], where the catch phrase caught on to become firmly embedded in the [[fannish]] lexicon | The kind that [[fans]] have – or at least claim to. First used to describe the mind set of [[fans]] by [[Margaret St. Clair]] in a 1948 article in ''Writer's Digest'', it was quickly picked up and used tongue-in-cheek in numerous [[fanzines]], where the catch phrase caught on to become firmly embedded in the [[fannish]] lexicon | ||
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The kind that fans have – or at least claim to. First used to describe the mind set of fans by Margaret St. Clair in a 1948 article in Writer's Digest, it was quickly picked up and used tongue-in-cheek in numerous fanzines, where the catch phrase caught on to become firmly embedded in the fannish lexicon
From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959 |
Something fans have, along with cosmic concepts, a sensitive fannish face, and sometimes slan tendrils or a third eye. One with any or all of these attributes is undoubtlessly star-begotten. Margaret St Clair credited us with this characteristic in an article in a '48 Writers' Digest. |
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This is a fanspeak page. Please extend it by adding information about when and by whom it was coined, whether it’s still in use, etc. |