It was Charles Fort's proudest moment when, in 1920, he walked into the New York Public Library and picked up a copy of his just-published work, The Book of the Damned . But when he asked the librarian what the classification numbers on the spine meant and got the answer "Eccentric Literature," Fort exploded in anger, demanding to no avail to be filed among the sciences. For months he griped about it and one day, in a fit of the sulks, he took the fruits of his painstaking research 40,000 handwritten notes, each one ripped or folded to exactly...
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