Episode #229: The Book of the Damned - Part 1

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Time for a book report.

We've been wanting to do Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned for a while now, as in many ways it is the foundation of much of modern investigations into the strange, weird, and wonderful. As always, we begin by reading through the various intros and forwards to the book. There is an introduction by Jim Steinmeyer, which gives us some insight into Fort himself and his life. Then there is Fort's own introduction to The Book of the Damned, which gives us some insight into his goals and some of his thinking regarding the subjects of the book. It also gives us an introduction into Fort's unique style of writing.

After these two intros, we begin tackling the main subjects, starting with strange atmospheric effects, colored hail, and weird rain.

You can get The Book of the Damned from Amazon here:

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1514608618

Audible version by Grimerica:

https://www.amazon.com/The-Book-of-the-Damned/dp/B09QD49FM3

Thanks to listener and supporter AJ Schlechten for the 1up box of art, find his work at his website, https://www.ajschlechten.com/, and on Instagram, @ajschlechten

Transcript

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0:00.0	The Book of the Damned by Charles Ford.
0:05.0	Part 1. You are listening to Brothers of the Serpent Podcast.
0:10.0	And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, angels and demons and monsters and serpents.
0:23.7	This is Brothers of the Survement Podcast, and we are coming to you not live from the 10 by 10 by 10 tangent cube of science, where we are nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high atop the airbus plateau.
0:37.1	So I think we got a good show for you guys.
0:40.3	We're starting a new book report.
0:41.9	The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort.
0:46.2	And, you know, I've been going through taking notes, making marks, and I don't know.
0:51.4	I think this is going to be a lot of fun.
0:54.1	This is the origin of a lot of fun.
0:56.9	This is the origin of the term fortian.
0:58.6	That's right. That's right.
0:59.8	Fortian phenomena.
1:00.3	Yeah.
1:02.2	Yep, that's right.
1:04.7	So it's been making me laugh.
1:07.0	I think, you know, this dude was a snake bro.
1:07.9	But we'll get into that.
1:09.1	We'll get into that.
1:10.7	Charles Ford was one of their early snake bros.
1:12.7	A couple of announcements.
1:22.0	The Egypt tour, the November 22, Egypt tour with Ben from Uncharted X, Kyle and I from Brothers of the Serpent, and Darren and Graham from Grimerica.
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