Frases de Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort foi um escritor estadunidense e colecionador de fenômenos anômalos.

Charles Hoy Fort foi um colecionador de fatos insólitos e um dos precursores de realismo fantástico. Fort não estava muito interessado em explicar os fenômenos, e sua intenção parecia mais ser a de embaraçar os cientistas do que em tentar apresentar uma teoria alternativa.

Ele publicou quatro livros com os relatos destes fenômenos:



Book of the Damned

New Lands

Lo!

Wild Talents Entre os incríveis fenômenos catalogados por Fort, destacam-se as chuvas estranhas, algumas delas mencionadas por outros dois autores também considerados mestres do realismo fantástico, Louis Pauwels e Jacques Bergier. Em O Despertar dos Mágicos, Pauwels e Bergier escrevem: Aos 34 anos, Charles Fort começou a acumular notas sobre acontecimentos extraordinários e contudo reconhecidos… No dia 2 de novembro de 1819, chuva vermelha sobre Blankenbergue [Veja abaixo: chuva vermelha de Kerala] no dia 14 de novembro de 1902, chuva de lama na Tasmânia. Flocos de neve do tamanho de pratos em Nashville, a 24 de janeiro de 1891. Chuva de rãs em Birmingham a 30 de junho de 1892. etc. Quarenta mil notas sobre toda espécie de chuvas que têm caído sobre a Terra há muito levaram Charles Fort a admitir a hipótese de que a maior parte delas não são de origem terrestre: "Proponho que se admita a ideia de que há, para além do nosso mundo, outros continentes [lugar que contém] dos quais caem objetos… "





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✵ 6. Agosto 1874 – 3. Maio 1932   •   Outros nomes Чарльз Форт
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Charles Fort: Frases em inglês

“If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin”

Charles Fort livro Lo!

Pt 1, Ch. 1 http://www.resologist.net/lo101.htm
Lo! (1931)
Contexto: If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

“My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things.”

Ch. 2 http://www.resologist.net/talent02.htm
Wild Talents (1932)
Contexto: My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

“If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things.”

Charles Fort livro Lo!

Pt 1, Ch. 4 http://www.resologist.net/lo104.htm
Lo! (1931)
Contexto: If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree can not find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time. For whatever is supposed to be meant by progress, there is no need in human minds for standards of their own: this is in the sense that no part of a growing plant needs guidance of its own devising, nor special knowledge of its own as to how to become a leaf or a root. It needs no base of its own, because the relative wholeness of the plant is relative baseness to its parts. At the same time, in the midst of this theory of submergence, I do not accept that human minds are absolute nonentities, just as I do not accept that a leaf, or a root, of a plant, though so dependent upon a main body, and so clearly only a part, is absolutely without something of an individualizing touch of its own.
It is the problem of continuity-discontinuity, which perhaps I shall have to take up sometime.

“My general expression is that all human beings who can do anything; and dogs that track unseen quarry, and homing pigeons, and bird-charming snakes, and caterpillars who transform into butterflies, are magicians.”

Ch. 27 http://www.resologist.net/talent27.htm
Wild Talents (1932)
Contexto: My general expression is that all human beings who can do anything; and dogs that track unseen quarry, and homing pigeons, and bird-charming snakes, and caterpillars who transform into butterflies, are magicians. … Considering modern data, it is likely that many of the fakirs of the past, who are now known as saints, did, or to some degree did, perform the miracles that have been attributed to them. Miracles, or stunts, that were in accord with the dominant power of the period were fostered, and miracles that conflicted with, or that did not contribute to, the glory of the Church, were discouraged, or were savagely suppressed. There could be no development of mechanical, chemical, or electric miracles —
And that, in the succeeding age of Materialism — or call it the Industrial Era — there is the same state of subservience to a dominant, so that young men are trained to the glory of the job, and dream and invent in fields that are likely to interest stockholders, and are schooled into thinking that all magics, except their own industrial magics, are fakes, superstitions, or newspaper yarns.

“The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.”

Fonte: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 3, part 2 at resologist.net

“The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.”

Fonte: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 2, part 2 at resologist.net

“Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.”

Fonte: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 5, part 1 at resologist.net

“I conceive of nothing, in religion, science, or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.”

Ch. 22 http://www.resologist.net/talent22.htm; sometimes paraphrased "I can conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is anything more than the proper thing to wear, for a while."
Wild Talents (1932)

“One can't learn much and also be comfortable. One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable.”

Ch. 6 http://www.resologist.net/talent06.htm
Wild Talents (1932)

“If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?”

This has become widely attributed to Fort, but originates with Damon Knight, who in Charles Fort : Prophet of the Unexplained (1970) used the expression to sum up the nature of some of Fort's ideas or inquiries.
Misattributed