Part I. 11 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 11 Science is very much like the Civil War, in the U. S. A. No matter which side won, it would have been an American victory. By Science, I mean conventionalization of alleged knowledge. It, or maybe she, acts to maintain itself, or whatever, against further...
Part I. 18 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 18 There was the case of Mrs. Guppy, June 3, 1871, for instance. As the spiritualists tell it, she shot from her home, in London. Several miles away, she flopped down through a ceiling. Mrs. Guppy weighed 200 pounds. But Mrs. Guppy was a medium. She w...
Part I. 15 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 15 In every organism, there are, in its governance as a whole, mysterious transportations of substances and forces, sometimes in definite, circulatory paths, and sometimes specially, for special needs. In the organic view, Teleportation is a distributive force...
Part I. 19 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 19 In the "Encyclopdia Britannica", the story of Kaspar Hauser is said to be one of the most baffling mysteries in history. This is an unusual statement. Mostly we meet denials that there are mysteries. In everything that I have read upon this case, it is treated...
Part I. 13 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 13 As to data that we shall now take up, I say to myself: "You are a benign ghoul, digging up dead, old legends and superstitions, trying to breathe life into them. Well, then, why have you neglected Santa Claus?" But I am particular in the matter of d...
Part I. 17 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], p. 686 17 As interpreters of dreams, I can't say that we have ambitions, but I think of one dream that many persons have had, repeatedly, and it may have relation to our present subject. One is snoring along, amidst the ordinary marvels of dreamland--and there one...
Part Iii. 31 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 31 Besides the new star, which was an object so conspicuous that it was discovered widely, except by astronomers, there was another astronomical occurrence in the month of June, 1918--an eclipse of the sun. It was observed in Oregon. We can't expect such a check...
Untitled : * It is not exclusively anywhere where anything is, if ours is one organic existence, in which all things are continuous.--p. 769. I suspect that, in other worlds, or in other parts of one existence, there is esoteric knowledge of the human beings of this earth, kept back from common knowledge...
Part Iii. 27 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 27 Once upon a time, one of this earth's earlier scientists pronounced, or enunciated, or he told a story, which was somewhat reasonable, of a flood, and of all the animals of this earth saved, as species, in a big boat. Perhaps the story was not meant seriously...
Part I. 6 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 6 Flows of blood from "holy images"--I take for a proposition that, though nothing can be proved--because, if all phenomenal things are continuous, there is, in a final sense, nothing phenomenal--anything can be said to be proved--because, if all phenomenal things...
Part Ii. 20 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], p. 711 PART II 20 According to appearances, this earth is a central body, within a revolving, starry globe. But am I going to judge by appearances? But everything of the opposing doctrine is judgment by other appearances. Everybody who argues against judging by...
Part I. 2 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], p. 551 2 Frogs and fishes and worms--and these are the materials of our expression upon all things. Hops and flops and squirms--and these are the motions. But we have been considering more than matter and motion, to start with: we have been considering attempts by...
Part Iii. 29 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 29 Why don't they see, when sometimes magnificently there is something to see? The answer is the same as the answer to another question: Why, sometimes, do they see when there is nothing to see? In the year 1899, Campbell, the astronomer, "announced" that the star...
Part I. 8 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 8 There is no way of judging these stories. Every canon, or device, of inductive logic, conceived of by Francis Bacon and John Stuart Mill has been employed in investigating some of them, but logic is ruled by the fishmonger. Some of us will think as we're told...
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Part Iii. 25 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 25 With a surf and a glare, this earth quaked a picture--Or, in the monistic sense, there was, in Peru, a catastrophe that was a hideous and magnificent emotion. It is likely that there's a wound in a brain, at a time of intensest excitement-- Red of the writhing...
Part Ii. 22 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 22 That, in the summer of 1880, some other world, or whatever we'll call it, after a period of hard luck, cheered up--and cast off its despairs--which came to this earth, where there is always room for still more melancholy--in long, black, funereal processions...
Part I. 4 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 4 Over the town of Noirfontaine, France, one day in April, 1842, there was a cloudless sky, but drops of water were falling. See back to data upon repetitions. The water was falling, as if from a fixed appearing-point, somewhere above the ground, to a definite...
Part Iii. 32 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 32 Star after star after star--and the signs that there were, at the times of them. Quake after quake after quake--and the sights in the sky, at the times of them. Star after quake after deluge--the sky boils with significances--there are tempests of indications...
Part I. 9 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 9 I have come upon a story of somebody, in Philadelphia, who, having heard that a strange wild animal was prowling in New Jersey, announced that he had caught it. He exhibited something, as the "Jersey Devil." I have to accept that this person was the press agent...
Part Iii. 28 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], p. 802 28 Early in October, 1902, vast volumes of smoke, of unknown origin, obscured all things at sea, and made navigation difficult and dangerous, from the Philippines to Hongkong, and from the Philippines to Australia. I do not know of anything of terrestrial...
Part I. 1 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], LO! PART I 1 A naked man in a city street--the track of a horse in volcanic mud--the mystery of reindeer's ears--a huge, black form, like a whale, in the sky, and it drips red drops as if attacked by celestial swordfishes--an appalling cherub appears in the se...
Part Ii. 23 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 23 Melbourne "Age", Jan. 21, 1869--there was a carter. He was driving a five-horse truck along the bed of a dry creek. Down the gulley shot a watery fist that was knuckled with boulders. A dead man, a truck, and five horses were punched into trees. "New Orleans...
Part I. 5 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 5 Upon the 9th of January, 1907, Mr. McLaughlin, of the town of Magilligan, County Derry, Ireland, hadn't a red light. Neither had his sister, nor his niece, nor his maidservant. They hadn't a cabinet. But a show was staged at their house, as if they knew...
Part Iii. 24 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], p. 765 PART III 24 Emissions of arms--the bubbling of faces, at crevices--fire and smoke and a lava of naked beings. Out from a crater, discharges of bare bodies boiled into fantastic formations-- Or--five o'clock, morning of Dec. 28, 1908--violent shocks...
Part Iii. 30 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], p. 820 30 I am thinking of an abstraction that was noted by Aristotle, and that was taken by Hegel, for the basis of his philosophy: That wherever there is a conflict of extremes, there is an outcome that is not absolute victory on either side, but is a compromise...
Part I. 3 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 3 The subject of reported falls from the sky, of an edible substance, in Asia Minor, is confused, because reports have been upon two kinds of substances. It seems that the sugar-like kind cannot be accepted. In July, 1927, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sent...
Part I. 7 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 7 Nose in the mud, and the bend of a thing to the ground. There are postures from which life is acting to escape: one of them, the embryonic crouch; another, whether in the degradation of worship, or as a convenience in eating grass, the bend of a neck...
Part Ii. 21 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 21 A trek of circumstances that kicks up a dust of details--a vast and dirty movement that is powdered with particulars-- The gossip of men and women, and the yells of brats--whether dinner is ever going to be ready, or not--young couples in their nightly...
Part Iii. 26 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 26 Horses erect in a blizzard of frogs--and the patter of worms on umbrellas. The hum of lady birds in England--the twang of a swarm of Americans, at Templemore, Ireland. The appearance of Cagliostro--the appearance of Prof. Einstein's theories. A policeman dumps...
Part I. 16 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], p. 681 16 Here is the shortest story that I know of: "St. Louis Globe-Democrat", Nov. 2, 1886--a girl stepped from her home, to go to a spring. Still, though we shall have details and comments, I know of many occurrences of which, so far as definitely finding out...
Part I. 12 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], p. 634 12 It may be that upon new principles we can account for the mystery of the "Marie Celeste". If there is a selective force, which transports stones exclusively, or larvae, and nothing but larvae, or transports living things of various sizes, but nothing but...
Part I. 14 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], p. 649 14 In October, 1904, a wolf, belonging to Captain Bains of Shotley Bridge, twelve miles from Newcastle, England, escaped, and soon afterward, killing of sheep were reported from the region of Hexham, about twenty miles from Newcastle. There seems to be...
Part I. 10 : * "Lo!", by Charles Fort, [1931], 10 Unknown, luminous things, or beings, have often been seen, sometimes close to this earth, and sometimes high in the sky. It may be that some of them were living things that occasionally come from somewhere else in our existence, but that others were lights...
