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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fortean: I

9/16/2009

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The most obvious way, at least when one thinks of Charles Fort himself, is as a collector.  Fort spent years in New York and British libraries collecting reports of the strange, the inexplicable, which he then filed according to his own system: a hue collection.

Collecting has been central to much Fortean activity since then.  In the reprint edition of his Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, for example, Ivan Sanderson said that Forteanism could only be advanced y scouring libraries for more reports of the unknown.  And he was an inveterate collector himself. joking that when he died, he would not be buried, but filed amid his collection.

I have recently learned that Booth Tarkington, one of the founding members of the Fortean Society, wrote a book called The Collector's Whatnot.  That's probably worth checking out.
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