LO! by Charles Fort . RARE 1931 First Edition / 3rd Printing Hardcover Illustr.

Description: LO ! . by Charles Hoy Fort . 1931 . First Edition / 3rd Printing . Hardcover . Illustrated . Claude Kendall publishers . 411 pages .... Condition of Hardcover is Good Plus . Covers are smooth and corners sharp and right-angled with no bumping evident . Dulling of original pigmentation on front and back cover . Spine is a bit Sun-faded . Top papers edge is darkened . Inside contents are Very Good . Tight , still bright , clean and unmarked " LO ! is Charles Fort's third book following THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED (1919) and NEW LANDS (1923). In this title, Fort further compiles hundreds of beyond-normal human and animal phenomena. Fort was a Dutch-American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. He was a humorist and a satirist hugely skeptical especially of scientists' claims to ultimate knowledge. He flourished with a unique blend of mockery, penetrating insight, and calculated outrageousness. What follows is a parade of scientific anomalies framing the larger mystery that is existence. "Lo!" is a book with the capacity to rewire brains and sculpt new lenses for seeing the unexpected, the unexplained - and perhaps for glimpsing our own role in the cosmic milieu. Tongue in cheek, question all, perception is subjective, and objective. Fort's style is brilliantly off kilter, yet rhythmic, with a quirk quality that accents his unpredictable comedic timing. A must for anyone who enjoys philosophy, semantics, metaphysics, sci-fi, horror, and especially astronomy. Fort explores reports of teleportation, spontaneous combustion, the "hive mind," etc. Here are crews disappearing from ships at sea, cigar-shaped airships flying overhead, swarms of animals falling from the sky, strange creatures seen at sea, etc. Although Fort's approach is thorough, he calls attention to the limitations of logical explanation. Good natured snark ensues: "I cannot accept that the products of minds are subject-matter for beliefs;" "I am tired of the sensible explanations that are holding back new delusions;" "I am simply pointing out everybody's inability seriously to spend time upon something which, according to his preconceptions, is nonsense;" and, "This seems logical, and is therefore under suspicion." Colin Wilson on Fort: "The feeling that no matter how honest scientists think they are, they are influenced by unconscious assumptions that prevent true objectivity." People with a psychological desire to be curious and explore marvels and miracles are less predisposed to conclusions and less gullible than those with a need to believe in scientism or perfect science as law without flaw. This unorthodox title asks questions orthodox science dares not ask or answer. Thought provoking, astounding, outrageous - the truth about inexplicable phenomena by the man who "has shot the scientific basis of modern wisdom full of large holes." - Ben Hecht. "To read Charles Fort is to ride a comet!"

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