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Lo!: A Classic Fortean Study of Unexplained Phenomena and Strange Facts
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PhilosophyMetaphysical GeneralSpeculation
ISBN13: 9781604595802
Publisher: A & D Publishing
Published: Dec 10 2008
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lo! is Charles Fort's strange, sceptical, and endlessly provocative catalogue of anomalous events, unexplained phenomena, scientific embarrassments, and facts that refuse to behave. First published in 1931, the book gathers reports of odd falls from the sky, strange disappearances, astronomical anomalies, mysterious observations, apparent teleportations, and other incidents that Fort believed had been too quickly dismissed, explained away, or forced into accepted systems of knowledge.
Fort does not write as a conventional occultist, spiritualist, or scientific authority. His method is more unsettling: he piles up rejected data, mocks certainty, and asks what happens when official explanations become as dogmatic as the superstitions they claim to replace. Lo! continues the work that made Fort famous in The Book of the Damned, turning anomaly into a weapon against intellectual complacency. The result is a classic of Fortean literature: eccentric, funny, maddening, anti-systematic, and still influential in the study of the paranormal, unexplained phenomena, fringe science, conspiracy-minded thinking, and the cultural history of the weird.
For readers of Charles Fort, anomalous phenomena, the paranormal, unexplained mysteries, sceptical occult literature, and the borderland between science and belief, Lo! remains one of the essential Fortean texts: a book less interested in providing answers than in making premature certainty look foolish.
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