4 juli är en helig dag för den fanniska ghuden Roscoe, en dag då man kan se den
flitige bäverguden flyga över himlen i sin raket. Från Fancyclopedia 3
(http://fancyclopedia.wikidot.com/roscoe):
"Roscoe is a beaver whose birthday is Labor Day Weekend thus, all fans
celebrate it, even those who are not followers. Possibly the most popular of
the fannishly invented ghods, for reasons that remain open to conjecture. ...
The One True Ghod, incarnate in the form of a beaver. (This mystically
expresses the fact that all true fen are busy little b's.) Revealed by the
Prophet Art Rapp in '47, His religion Roscoism or the Rosconian Faith
rapidly swept thru fandom, converting the elite group to its Insurgent credo
and arousing the False Faiths of Ghu and FooFoo to a brief revival. Barring
interference by Oscar (the Evil Principle, represented as a malignant muskrat)
Rosconians enjoy the Reality of Fanac, the Hope of Egoboo, and the Promise of
Bheer. Chronicles of the future Rosconian Empire have been produced by various
fans, even depraved Ghuists. Roscoe's Mighty Two Front Teeth and Slapping Tail
are terrible weapons against the evildoer. Holy days are the Fourth day of July
("that's the day when Roscoe flies a fiery spaceship in the sky") and Labor Day
*, the date of Roscoe's Birth. Conventionsare frequently held to celebrate
these Sacred Occasions, and fen meeting there quaff libations of beer and other
beverages in Roscoe's honor.(*Amerikansk högtid med varierande datum, sent
augusti, tidigt september.)
Unlike various false ghods Roscoe has no official color and leaves ritualistic
forms of reverence to the discretion and imagination of his worshippers; for,
being the True Ghod, he of course does not need to be confirmed in his position
by bombastic pronouncements such as Ghuist and Fooist use to trumpet their
ghods' pretensions. Certain references in the Birch Bark Bible [the Rosconian
Scriptures] suggest that allegiance to false ghodsdelivers misbelievers to
Oscar, who created false ghods as well as mimeos that overink, cheap stencils,
hangovers, and other banes of fannish life. Liberal Rosconian theologians,
however, point out that this is merely a consequence of submitting to Oscar,
since after200th Fandom Roscoe will save all fans simply because they are fans."
...och såsom det är skrivet: på den yttersta dagen i den 200:e fandomen (kolla
numrerade fandoms i Fancyclopedia) kommer Roscoe att stiga ned från himlen i
sin raket och ta alla sanna fans till den Perfekta Kongressen där öhlen flödar
i fontäner, roomparties pågår dygnet runt, stencilapparaterna hörs dunka,
papper prassla och häftapparater klinkeliklinkas, Forry Ackerman och Walt
Willis ordvitsduellerar så att marken skakar, Bob Tucker bjuder alla på riktigt
smoooth whisky, alla som viftar med gummisvärd och plastlaserpistoler håller
sig undan och det första numret av Amazing Stories finns att köpa i
hucksterrummet till ett häpnadsväckande lågt pris.
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