The Book of the Damned
The Collected Works of Charles Fort
by Charles Fort, Jim Steinmeyer
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How does Charles Fort’s cynical yet playful tone toward mainstream science and academia shape your reading experience of these bizarre phenomena?
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Given that Fort compiled these anomalies from newspapers and scientific journals of his time, how do you think the modern internet and social media would have changed his methodology and scope?
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Fort famously coined the term "the damned" to describe data and phenomena rejected by mainstream science; what kind of information or ideas do you think modern society similarly "damns" or refuses to acknowledge today?
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