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Multiple Online Personality Disorder

Jim Perrin does lead a merry dance through the personal fiefdom (as he seems to regard it) that is the Internet, and we are most grateful that someone else can help us analyse his online activities more deeply than we are able to do. One of our perceptive well-wishers has an interest in the recently described condition M.O.P.D., and has made a brief study of it; and as a follower of our site he has not failed to pick up on our accusations that Jim Perrin has written under pseudonyms. He too has recognized the patterns which he considers point to this likelihood. Very kindly he has sent us this contribution.

He writes:

‘Let me prefix the following by saying that the lawyers insist on the term ‘I (or we) believe’ being coupled with every assertion regarding Jim Perrin for which hard proof is not provided. In the present matter such proof is not easy to come by — but it certainly exists and could be assembled with (and by some parties of my acquaintance without) the co-operation of certain website operators, internet service providers, and email services; but really, need I bother? Continue reading →

Jim Perrin’s libel-less libel

When the author Jan Morris reviewed ‘West:’  in IWA’s journal, AGENDA  on 25/12/2010, she posed this question:  ‘Is it good or bad to be proprioceptive?’   We replied to this review in a post of our own:  ‘Our response to a review by Jan Morris.’  ‘The point ”proprioceptive” is most pertinent to our sister’s story. Jim Perrin has made cleverly libel-less statements in these passages. We know to whom he refers, as do others also. He knows that we know (as they say) and it is a serious matter which we will be writing about in a future post.’

This is the post:

Jim Perrin had written about our sister — with a reference to her former husband which was virtually libellous, and described, with an almost abnormally distasteful relish, injuries which he claimed she had received at his hands. He said:  ‘a previous man in her life had beaten her savagely about the head, and her corrective balance was gone.’ And on page 220, describing an accident,  he wrote:  ‘she had fallen in the night at the flat where she was staying, had cracked her lumbar vertebra.’ He could not have known this — there was no medical  examination.  (See Jac’s accident to read his description of another accident which befell her.)

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Jim Curran v Jim Perrin (part 6 of 6)

Yet again Jim Perrin has put a book forward for a prize and has been short-listed; this time for the Boardman Tasker Mountain Literature Award, 2013. In the context of this competition it is to Jim Perrin’s undoubted advantage that those with whom he mixes choose to have very short memories…  As we make clear in the following paragraphs it is apparent that he is man who is entirely unscrupulous and one who does not hesitate to use immensely shifty behaviour to gain his objective.

In our latest sequence of postings (Jim Curran v Jim Perrin parts 1 to 5) we have shown, and with no question of doubt whatsoever, that Jim Perrin has in the past — not only once but twice — been proved guilty BY HIS OWN HAND of dishonesty concerning the judging of this most prestigious of literary competitions.

And it is to his eternal discredit that he calumnized a fellow climber, Jim Curran, both in a letter to the judges and committee and, for good measure, with a libellous article in a climbing magazine some years later. Jim Perrin and his publishers at the time were obliged to withdraw from a scheduled court-hearing for libel, to retreat in disarray and to pay a small fortune to the plaintiff.

Surely those actions should have put Jim Perrin well beyond the pale? His actually perfidious nature — as we believe it to be — was, in our opinion, revealed: his on-going lack of integrity is by now well-documented.

In fact, over time, Jim Perrin has succeeded in brushing those matters under the carpet, as would a disreputable house-maid, but surely his actions, his attempted corruption of the judging process, should never be forgotten? Had it not been for Jim Curran’s profoundly illuminating autobiography we fear they would have been.

  • To hurt the reputations of other climbers and authors; to plant his lies like poisonous seeds in his attempts to control events — these are not the actions of a worthy man: nor of a man worthy of acclaim. His behaviour was so deceitful and so utterly dishonest — and yet fortuitously the evidence of this was discovered, and uncovered, and shown: in the first instance to the judging panel and, in the second, to the lawyers — one cannot help but wonder what other pressure he might over the years have brought to bear…

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So: Despite Jim Perrin’s machinations they led to nothing. He failed to ‘win’ after all although by all accounts he confidently expected to do so; instead, Harriet Tuckey was awarded the prize with the outstanding biography of her father, Griffith Pugh,* and although Jim Curran had not entered a book this year (this author whom Jim Perrin has so frequently traduced and whose career he has shamelessly attempted to sabotage), he was however acknowledged and singularly honoured by that estimable establishment:

‘It was decided by this year’s judges and the committee of the Boardman Tasker  Mountain Literature Award that they wished to pay tribute to Jim Curran.

They wrote: ‘A special award has been given to Jim Curran for his outstanding and consistent contribution to mountain literature.‘ This is an accolade of which Jim Curran can rightly be proud — worth more, among his peers, than anything which has been achieved by Jim Perrin, the man who has for years behaved so vilely towards him and ruthlessly hounded him…

Jac’s sisters.

* Harriet Tuckey’s book ‘Everest: The First Ascent’ was very well received and out of sixty five reviews on Amazon, 4.6 out of 5 stars, only one reviewer absolutely slated it — and one who had not had his own book recognised… This review was posted on 12/11/2013 by someone (unsurprisingly!) calling themselves ‘Llywarch’, and so disgusted were several readers by the blatantly censorious tone that they commented upon it. Interestingly the writer of that review (Llywarch’) then changed his name to one ‘Tim Bartley’ — (Such a timely coincidence that this was after Jac’s sisters had been posting their many accusations that ‘Llywarch’ was being used as an alias by Jim Perrin!) When the change of name to ‘Tim Bartley’ was put into place, all sixteen of his ‘Llywarch’ reviews, going back to April, 2005, were also changed. They may still be read online. Irrefutably Jim Perrin WAS ‘Llywarch’; irrefutably Jim Perrin is NOW ‘Tim Bartley’.

Later note:  Jac’s sisters were so sorry to learn that since this post, 25/10/2013,  Jim Curran died on the 05/04/2016.

We are glad that with his full cooperation we were able to post this sequence, not only to show to those who might have been unaware how truly wicked Jim Perrin is, but more importantly, to reveal to others who will read Jim’s autobiography how innate was his integrity and honesty; and what a many-talented human being he was.