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Fortean Anomalies
Charles Fort's catalogues of scientifically excluded data: The Book of the Damned and its method of radical doubt toward orthodox explanation.
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New Lands — Charles FortCharles Fort's 1923 sequel to The Book of the Damned, arguing from excluded astronomical reports that other worlds lie nearer than orthodox science allows, with Booth Tarkington's introduction.The Book of the Damned — Charles FortCharles Fort's 1919 catalogue of scientifically excluded data — falls from the sky, unexplained lights, anomalous phenomena — and his argument that the excluding itself is the real subject.