Comments on: A New Fort Bio http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/a-new-fort-bio/ UFO News, Views, and More Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:54:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: drew hempel http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/a-new-fort-bio/#comment-5958 drew hempel Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:44:51 +0000 http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/a-new-fort-bio/#comment-5958 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. 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.

]]> By: Yards http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/a-new-fort-bio/#comment-5828 Yards Fri, 30 May 2008 20:50:38 +0000 http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/a-new-fort-bio/#comment-5828 Thanks for the heads-up, Nick! I love reading anything by or about Fort. :) ~Y Thanks for the heads-up, Nick! I love reading anything by or about Fort. :)
~Y

]]> By: red pill junkie http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/a-new-fort-bio/#comment-5822 red pill junkie Fri, 30 May 2008 02:25:31 +0000 http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/a-new-fort-bio/#comment-5822 For your enjoyment, TDG's Greg Taylor has just posted an incredible interview with Mr. Steinmeyer regardng his book. <a href="http://www.dailygrail.com/features/jim-steinmeyer-on-charles-fort" rel="nofollow">Don't miss it!</a> For your enjoyment, TDG’s Greg Taylor has just posted an incredible interview with Mr. Steinmeyer regardng his book. Don’t miss it!

]]> By: drew hempel http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/a-new-fort-bio/#comment-5820 drew hempel Thu, 29 May 2008 22:50:22 +0000 http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/a-new-fort-bio/#comment-5820 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. 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.

]]> By: red pill junkie http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/a-new-fort-bio/#comment-5819 red pill junkie Thu, 29 May 2008 22:24:37 +0000 http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/a-new-fort-bio/#comment-5819 They should do a movie about Fort, even if its slightly fictionalized—I'm sure he wouldn't mind ;-) They should do a movie about Fort, even if its slightly fictionalized—I’m sure he wouldn’t mind ;-)

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