Alfred Bester

From Plastic Tub

American, 1913 - 1987. He is the only to arrive by chandelier -- and as such receives huge fucking kudos. Impeccably dressed, our women almost bend to a mysterious gravity. He is: Five times himself. He receives: Same thing.

Presently a dead man, one of many, who have participated in Associationalist Agendizing. Or did he? Many participants in the movement describe Bester as a clamper, or worse, a kind of neo-Poob. Painter and poet William Flintrock reported: "He showed up to two, maybe ten parties at most, always blowing off about concrete poetry and wearing a silly rhinestone glove...."

Adid corroborates the story, adding, "Yeah, I remember the glove -- one time I flushed it down the toilet and he went outside to dig up the septic tank. We all felt horrible, he was so attached to the damn thing -- but it was an affectation too far, you could say. The little sequin jobbies were always coming loose, the next day you'd find them everywhere. I thought at first they were listening devices."

Bester is known to have introduced Addisson to the works of a then young Isaac Asimov, as well as several more obscure works of the sci-fi porn underground. A young Nevid Kessar, having read through some of this material he found in a trunk at Stimes' Arlington, Virginia, rumpus room, went on to produce To Hear Dreams Around Noon.

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