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... Fortean Society was born . The founders included , besides Dreiser and Thayer , such literary lights as Alexander Woollcott , Tarkington , Ben Hecht , Burton Rascoe , and John Cowper Powys . Fort's third book was titled Lo ! " Lo ! was ...
... Fortean Society was born . The founders included , besides Dreiser and Thayer , such literary lights as Alexander Woollcott , Tarkington , Ben Hecht , Burton Rascoe , and John Cowper Powys . Fort's third book was titled Lo ! " Lo ! was ...
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... Fortean Society is an international association of philoso- phers - that is , of men and women who would live no differently if there were no laws ; of men and women whose behavior is not a sequence of reflex jerks caused by ...
... Fortean Society is an international association of philoso- phers - that is , of men and women who would live no differently if there were no laws ; of men and women whose behavior is not a sequence of reflex jerks caused by ...
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... Fortean terms like " teleportation " have become staple science - fantasy property , but in general his ideas have proved too mundane to serve as useful story gimmicks . Dreiser once tried to convince H. G. Wells that there was science ...
... Fortean terms like " teleportation " have become staple science - fantasy property , but in general his ideas have proved too mundane to serve as useful story gimmicks . Dreiser once tried to convince H. G. Wells that there was science ...
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CHAPTER PAGE 1 In the Name of Science | 3 |
Flat and Hollow | 16 |
Monsters of Doom | 28 |
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