Noun

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(dated, fandom slang) The state of becoming involved in science fiction and fandom activity, leaving the mundane world.

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, year = 1944 , first = John Bristol , last = Speer , authorlink = Jack Speer , title = Fancyclopedia , url = http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_I/g.html , chapter = G - Guild , passage = gafia - (Wilson) - Get Away From It All; motto of escapism. }}

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, year = c. 1944 , date = , first = Forrest J , last = Ackerman , authorlink = Forrest J Ackerman , title = Fantasy Flanguage , magazine = What is Science Fiction Fandom? , url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/WhatIsSFF/WhatIsSFF44-27.html , volume = , issue = , page = 27 , passage = So once again there were only 2 Fen, and while one picked up his obliterine and turned toward Mimi, the other, an escapist, picked up a prozine to gafia . }}

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, year = 1977 , first = Damon , last = Knight , authorlink = Damon Knight , title = The Futurians , page = 71 , passage = "Gafia " (getting away from it all) started out being what a fan did when he was fanning. }}

(dated, fandom slang) The state of exiting or becoming inactive in fandom.

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, year = 1950 , date = April , first = Arthur H. , last = Rapp , authorlink = , title = Timber! , magazine = Spacewarp , url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Spacewarp/Spacewarp37-02.html , volume = 7 , issue = 1 (

37 overall)

, passage = Just a minor siege of GAFIA, from which, eventually, I will once again develop an enthusiasm for stf. At least I hope so. ¶ Etymological note for the benefit of fans who haven't met the word before: GAFIA is an intermittent affliction of fans. The letters stand for Getting Away From It All. Symptoms are sheer boredom while trying to read promags or fanzines, and allowing correspondence to pile up unanswered. Also a wish that half-done fanzines could be forgotten for a while. I am struggling to combat that last. }}

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, year = 1996 , date = November , first = Ted , last = White , authorlink = , title = The Purple Fields Of Fanac , magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy10-07.html , volume = , issue = 10 , page = 7 , passage = All computers had done was to speed up the process. New fans turned up more quickly, disappeared into gafia within months, if not weeks. }}

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, year = 1998 , monthday = June 15 , author = Patrick Nielsen Hayden , email = , title = Re: wedding: Leslie Smith & Ken Josenhans , id = , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/v520CsuuACk/tQVlxogX5r0J , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom }}

Sorry, your demonstration does not in fact demonstrate gafia', only sanity. You'll have to do something else to demonstrate '''gafia'''. (Tip: When trying to prove ' gafia , don't do it in a post to rec.arts.sf.fandom.)

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, year = 2000 , date = August , first = Paul , last = Campbell , authorlink = , title = Lokta Plokta , magazine = Plotka , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/Plokta/issue20/locs.htm , volume = 5 , issue = 4 (

20 overall)

, passage = Actually I suppose it's restarting, but seeing as how my first time round was when Tarzan was editing Moorcock Weekly or whatever maybe my gafia can be forgotten. }}