TRUE FAN Breathes there a fan with soul so dead
He never to
himself has said,
"I am a member of Trufandom!"?
Who ne'er has called
himself twice blest
Finding a stfyarn 'mongst the rest
In some
mundane zine picked up at random?
If such there be, his fate how
gruesome!
No fannish fire expands his bosom;
Let fandom clap him,
prodom too,
Boundless howe'er his egoboo
The wretch who finds no joy
in stf
Living shall be an LNF
And, doubly dying, shall be
forgotten--
Evicted from the realm of the starbegotten! from
Fancyclopedia 2
One to whom stf and crifanac
afford such pleasure that he would rather enjoy them than anything else
except femme-fans, and who willingly goes to all sorts
of trouble to maintain his fannish status and connections. He is almost
always an actifan. In connection with
TAFF a furor arose over the definition of a Trufan, the active faction
insisting that a trufan exhibit his quality by some sort of
fanac -- crifanac for choice -- while others maintained that nomination
to or interest in so stefnistic an enterprise as TAFF was sufficient to prove
fannishness. In the opinion of your editor the requirements noted in the
second paragraph under TAFF could hardly be fulfilled without engaging in
crifanac to some extent except by a few people like Don Ford who engage vast
numbers of fans as participants in regular gatherings like the
MidWestCon.
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