On Friday, April 16, 2021 at 3:51:59 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Friday, April 16, 2021 at 12:23:58 PM UTC-4,
michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > SCI-FI Weekly, an indie publication from 1967 provides the following information on our former resident nut-job:
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> > "The latest word on Stephen Pickering, perhaps one of the most bizarre people ever to explode onto the sf fan scene, indicates that worthwhile results have come about because of his thefts from the home of Forrest Ackerman, last December.
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> > "In a three page mimeographed letter, Pickering has set down what he calls a 'v.' The details are at times sordid, in other places amazing, and in some ways even unbelievable. However, Forrest Ackerman has prefaced Pickering's 'Explanation' with a full page explanation, 'For Those Who Got In Late.' Ackerman explains the details of Pickering's thefts, and subsequent actions in fandom. ... Pickering in his two page explanation, attempts to set down some explanation of why he acted as he did. This reader finds his home and personal life perhaps the most sordid I have any knowledge of in fandom. Pickering, recognizing this states, '...the December affair only added to a growing mental instability.'
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> > "'So, by March, I began taking psychiatric counseling. On April 1st, I became a volunteer patient at Camerillo State Hospital.'
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> > "... There is much more to Pickering's statement. Copies can be attained for a stamped s.a.e..."
> >
> > And so it goes...
> Old news but Interesting.
It's new here, Will.
Pick had always denied both that he stole from Forry, and that he committed himself to psychiatric hospital.
Here we have an admission of both from Pick's own published statements.
Too bad I haven't yet found a copy of the "History of Mr. Pickering's Past and Present Life." Judging by the description ("...his home and personal life perhaps the most sordid..."), he must have been telling some real whoppers.