Gafia

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(Did you mean a fanzine by Ted White?)


Gafia is an initialism for Get Away From It All, i.e., to voluntarily quit one's fanac. One who has gafiated is a gafiate.

“Gafia” originally meant the opposite — getting away from mundania into fandom, but that meaning has entirely vanished.

See Fafia.


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