Comments on: Fort’s Writing Catalogued

By: drew hempel

drew hempel — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:04:02 +0000

Seriously Craig — I’m totally against trivia. Here’s my blogbook: http://www.mothershiplanding.blogspot.com

By: craig york

craig york — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:12:23 +0000

Trivializing Rationalizations=Nincompoops.

By: drew hempel

drew hempel — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:31:52 +0000

Yes but considering I have no computer, no phone, no t.v., no car, no watch … I’m pretty much leveraging the mass technology forced upon us.

Science = Imperialism

By: craig york

craig york — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:17:47 +0000

One man’s mead is another man’s margret,
I guess. I like Fort, I admire Fort, I
respect Fort. But he wasn’t looking for
a pedestal, and I won’t put him up on
one either.

I will say it tickles me no end to read
about “Going ape-shit on science…”
when that reply depends on the current
pinnacle of western science and engineering, the modern computer…

By: drew hempel

drew hempel — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:10:29 +0000

My reading of pages 860-885 today in the Complete Books of Fort was worth more than off of Corliss’ oeuvre.

By: craig york

craig york — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:47:52 +0000

Piffle. Fort’s work is information, no
matter how you sort it. Not sure what you mean to imply by the mis-spelling
of William Corliss, but he’s a worthy
successor, to my way of thinking.

By: drew hempel

drew hempel — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:05:20 +0000

I guess my favorite thing about Fort is when he just goes ape-shit on science as a whole. His prose is excellent and his rambling sentences are better than other avant-garde famous rambles (Joyce, James, Faulkner).

There is always this urge to categorize his listings, as this website attempts to do, but it seems to hack up Fort. Form is content. It kind of reminds me of when this professor wrote a forward to my favorite novel, “The Third Policeman” by Flann O’Brien. If you get that edition, make sure to tear out the forward before you read it.

Then there’s Corbliss’ books, categories of anomalies — Fort is so beyond Corbliss yet this “listing” website might give people the wrong impression. I even found Corbliss’ books in the engineering library at the U of MN. Try to find the Complete Books of Fort at the engineering library.