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.
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.
