Oy. "Slans," indeed.

The self-mantling of that superior status by some of the pioneers in genre fandom can be naval-gazing in the extreme. It's gotten to the level of "these are the new holy writings about the vintage holy writings concerning the earliest holy writings and actions of the first anointed fans."

(As Daffy Duck used to say, "easy, stomach - don't turn over...")

Monsterkid since the Kennedy Era