Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:44:56 -0500
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Got Milk?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Strong, Lee" wrote:

> [...]
>         Ted, you seem to be reacting to a number of ideas that exist in your
> mind, not mine.  I have never seen anyone split open rocks to reveal
> spacesuit patterns and never said that I had.  (I have seen people spliting
> rocks open for other reasons.)  I only learned of this practice from you.
> Therefore, your question about my credulity strikes me as overblown
> rhetoric, not a serious concern for my mental health.

Not overblown; it's key to Shaver.  You see, in 1976 he awoke and began writing
letters again.  He wrote one to me at AMAZING, after we published our 50th
Annish.  He included *photos* of his "rock books."   I published his letter but
confessed I couldn't see any alien space suits in the rock photos, and I did not
encourage him to resume contributing to the magazine.

So he moved on, to a fanzine called TITLE, which appeared monthly in that era.
There editor Donn Brazier (who had revived his own fan career which had laid
dormant since the '40s) published Shaver's rantings for a year or more.

I assumed anyone as fascinated with Shaver as you appeared to be would be aware
of his more recent history.   Since for Shaver it's all one package -- Mystery,
rock books, and all -- I pointed to the looniest example to discredit him.

--Ted White