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In praise of the paranormal curiosity of Charles Fort, the Patron Saint of Cranks - C C - Jun 13, 2024
https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-the-paranormal-curiosity-of-charles-fort-patron-saint-of-cranks/
EXCERPT: . . . Paranormal thinking can be defined as a discipline, a method, and a perspective, but also—and this isn’t emphasized enough—as a literary style.
Charles Fort may have posited himself as a modern day Diogenes, but before anything he was a writer, and a writer who conceived of an entirely novel genre at that.
All the hallmarks of the paranormal mode are evident in Fort, manifesting like ectoplasm before the participants in a séance. The desire to see connections between disparate events, the baroque establishment of often contradictory explanations, the democratic distrust of authority.
As much as an epistemological perspective, the paranormal is a prose style, a way of thinking about and explaining that which is inexplicable... (MORE - details)
RE: In praise of the paranormal curiosity of Charles Fort, the Patron Saint of Cranks - Magical Realist - Jun 13, 2024
I bought "The Book of the Damned" once but couldn't get thru it. It has that dense and plodding Victorian writing style that I easily get distracted from.
RE: In praise of the paranormal curiosity of Charles Fort, the Patron Saint of Cranks - Yazata - Jun 14, 2024
CC called me a crank!
