May 29 2008
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A New Fort Bio
As people interested in all-things ufological, maybe your interests also extend to other area of general weirdness. If so, here’s something that looks to be well worth reading: a new study of Charles Fort, the man, his life, and his work.
It’s not that often you see a book like this one reviewed in one of the mainstream British newspapers (in this case, the Daily Mail); so maybe this will introduce a whole new audience to the work of the great man.
Titled Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented The Supernatural, written by Jim Steinmeyer and published by William Heinemann, it’s available now.
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May 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
They should do a movie about Fort, even if its slightly fictionalized—I’m sure he wouldn’t mind
May 29th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I’ve been carrying around Steinmeyer’s new collected works of Fort for over a week now. Still haven’t cracked it open as Scott’s “Road to 911″ is proving to read like a legal brief, just like Phillip’s new “Bad Money.” The book buyer at my local store forced the Fort book on me and I admitted that indeed the only group of people I felt I belonged to were Forteans. He replied something about how they were few and far between. haha. Then he made me order this new biography. Still I wondered how the hell could you pull off a biography of someone who spent their life in libraries.
Then a couple nights ago I dreamt I was dropping acid with Einstein. As I pieced together the subconscious associations that led to this wonderful experience I began to realize that a certain vista had been achieved — the total metaphysical moebius strip manical metastases of my mind.
I’ll blame this on the complete Fort book in my backpack.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
For your enjoyment, TDG’s Greg Taylor has just posted an incredible interview with Mr. Steinmeyer regardng his book. Don’t miss it!
May 30th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Thanks for the heads-up, Nick! I love reading anything by or about Fort.
~Y
June 10th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Well the one thing that pissed me off about Steinmeyer’s biography is that he has a somewhat patronizing attitude, as if he’s trying to take ownership of Fort, trying to domesticate him. For example in the Book of the Damned Fort hypothesizes that humans are actually ghosts and that only when humans die do we become human, since we’re actually ghosts while alive. I didn’t notice this in Steinmeyer’s summary of the Book of the Damned. Maybe I missed it and I’m just an idiot — regardless how could anyone summarize Book of the Damned. It’s unreadable and it’s supposed to be unreadable. I think Fort is better than Samuel Beckett in that regards.
So I just sold my Steinmeyer FORT collection and at least the money I got paid for the weight I had been carrying around! haha. Seriously though I’d already read LO! three times and the other books read like encyclopedias.
OH and no mention of Collin Bennent’s Politics of the Imagination? A not too distant biography of Fort? Oh well — Bennet’s book was less a biography and more of a commentary but in a sense more Fortean.