Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:59:53 -0500
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Robert Anton Wilson
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Steve Stiles wrote:
>  ----------
> > From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> To: WSFA members
> > <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Robert Anton Wilson Date:
> > Sat Jan 13, 2007, 1:11 PM
>
> > Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Schroedinger's Cat trilogy,
> > coauthor of the Illuminatus trilogy, died on January 11th at age 74
> > after a long illness.
> >
> > I met him and his sometimes-coauthors Robert Shea and Timothy Leary
> >  at the 1991 Worldcon in Chicago.  Now all three of them are dead.
>
>  I remember seeing the young Robert Shea walking down the street near
>  Rockefeller Plaza in the '60s, but, being a shy kid, didn't say
>  hello. Thought he looked like a young FDR, and the long cigarette
>  holder perched jauntily between his teeth enhanced that image. I knew
>  him then as the editor of "The Scene," a non-s.f. mimeographed
>  fanzine, and a sometimes contributor to Paul Krassner's "The
>  Realist." I think his writing career was in its early stages and I
>  probably recognized him from an appearance at a Lunacon.

More likely you recognized him from his appearances at early Fanoclast
meetings.  He was a friend of Larry Shaw's, and may have worked for/with
Larry as well.  I was the one who mimeographed THE SCENE for Bob.

--Ted White