{"product_id":"lo-a-classic-fortean-study-of-unexplained-phenomena-and-strange-facts-paperback","title":"Lo!: A Classic Fortean Study of Unexplained Phenomena and Strange Facts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Fort\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLo!\u003c\/em\u003e is Charles Fort's strange, sceptical, and endlessly provocative catalogue of anomalous events, unexplained phenomena, scientific embarrassments, and facts that refuse to behave.\u003c\/strong\u003e First published in 1931, the book gathers reports of odd falls from the sky, strange disappearances, astronomical anomalies, mysterious observations, apparent teleportations, and other incidents that Fort believed had been too quickly dismissed, explained away, or forced into accepted systems of knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFort does not write as a conventional occultist, spiritualist, or scientific authority. His method is more unsettling: he piles up rejected data, mocks certainty, and asks what happens when official explanations become as dogmatic as the superstitions they claim to replace. \u003cem\u003eLo!\u003c\/em\u003e continues the work that made Fort famous in \u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Damned\u003c\/em\u003e, turning anomaly into a weapon against intellectual complacency. The result is a classic of Fortean literature: eccentric, funny, maddening, anti-systematic, and still influential in the study of the paranormal, unexplained phenomena, fringe science, conspiracy-minded thinking, and the cultural history of the weird.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Charles Fort, anomalous phenomena, the paranormal, unexplained mysteries, sceptical occult literature, and the borderland between science and belief, \u003cem\u003eLo!\u003c\/em\u003e remains one of the essential Fortean texts: a book less interested in providing answers than in making premature certainty look foolish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53092807409888,"sku":"9781604595802","price":32.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/gCjx9vkzUV9781604595802.webp?v=1781635105","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/lo-a-classic-fortean-study-of-unexplained-phenomena-and-strange-facts-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}