the complete works of charles fort free pdf

Lo! is used extensively in Blue Balliett's book Chasing Vermeer. The reason for this is that Fort had been working on a follow-up to The Book of the Damned, but he scrapped the idea and incorporated many of the subjects into this one. It is divided into two sections: the first on the above phenomena the second, on his attacks on the contemporary astronomy. Lo! has been described as Fort's 'most accessible, most readable book'. Fort portrays them as quack prophets, sententiously pointing towards the skies and saying 'Lo!'. It takes its derisive title from what he regarded as the tendency of astronomers to make positivistic, overly precise, and premature announcements of celestial events and discoveries. He would later expand this theory to include purported mental and psychic phenomena in his fourth and final book, Wild Talents.

He also tied his previous statements on what he referred to as the Super-Sargasso Sea into his beliefs on teleportation. In Lo!, Fort coined the now-popular term ' teleportation'. The book also deals extensively with other subjects, including paranormal phenomena (see parapsychology), which were explored in his first book, The Book of the Damned. Of Fort's four books, this volume deals most frequently and scathingly with astronomy (continuing from his previous book New Lands). In the final chapter of the book he proposes a new cosmology that the earth is stationary in space and surrounded by a solid shell which is 'not unthinkably far away'. In it he details a wide range of unusual phenomena. Lo! is the third published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1931).

The complete works of charles fort free pdf