Bretty always says....
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
On Fortuity....
My own notion is that it is very unsportsmanlike to ever mention fraud. Accept anything. Then explain it your way.
-Charles Fort
On holding down Charles Fort...
...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.
-Charles Fort
On these Fortean times....
"If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen".
-Charles Fort
On Forteana....
The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.
-Charles Fort
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
On shuffling your deck...
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as
what language he shall speak.
-George Santayana
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
On going beyond the pale...
Patriotism is the veneration of real estate above principles.
-George Jean Nathan (1882-1958)
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