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Charles Fort's 143rd Birthday in London

The naïve and the pedantic and the bizarre and the grotesque and the sincere and the insincere, the profound and the puerile. Charles Fort - The Book of the Damned A gathering to celebrate the 143rd birthday of Charles Fort, the American writer who inspired the idea of being fortean.  I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. Charles Fort - Lo! Meet us at 7.30pm on Sunday 6 August outside 39A Marchmont Street London WC1N 1AP, Fort’s home in London, with a reading and toast. We'll then have a drink in his honour at the nearby Marquis Cornwallis on Marchmont Street, a "Bloomsbury pub of grandiose proportions". All forteans and friends welcome.   I am a collector of notes upon subjects that have diversity—such as deviations from concentricity in the lunar crater Copernicus, and a sudden appearance of purple Englishmen—stationary meteor-radiants, and a reported growth of hair on