The Book of the Damned

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The Book of the Damned

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en

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Charles Fort's provocative exploration of unexplained phenomena challenges scientific orthodoxy, inviting readers into a world where the mysterious takes center stage. Through a procession of excluded data, Fort questions the validity of rigid classification and exposes the arbitrary nature of 'fact,' celebrating the bizarre, the forgotten, and the impossible as legitimate subjects of inquiry.

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In *The Book of the Damned*, Charles Fort curates a vast collection of data rejected by mainstream science, presenting them as a 'procession of the damned.' Fort argues that 'existence' is merely a state of exclusion, where Science arbitrarily draws lines between the accepted and the excluded, ignoring the continuity between phenomena. He examines strange occurrences such as the Grave Creek Stone, inscribed tablets found in Ireland, and Chinese seals discovered in ancient mounds, suggesting they defy conventional historical explanations. Fort details the 1855 Devonshire snow tracks, which baffled experts who initially attributed them to devils or kangaroos before settling on mundane explanations like badgers, despite evidence of single-file lines and a lack of claw marks. He also recounts the fall of blood from the sky in Calabria, noting the absence of feathers or wind, and the discovery of geometric indentations in marble. Throughout, he critiques the 'Dominant' of his era, showing how human tropisms and the need for order force the dismissal of anomalies. The book posits that all things are continuous and that the quest for positive difference is an illusion. By including these 'excluded' facts, Fort aims to reveal a universal, inter-continuous reality where the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, the natural and the supernatural, are false demarcations. The text serves as both a catalog of anomalies and a philosophical manifesto against dogmatic certainty.

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