“Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement — that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.”

—  Charles Fort

Speaking of a dog's homing skills, in Ch. 27
Wild Talents (1932)

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American writer 1874–1932

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