“My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things.”

— Charles Fort

Ch. 2 http://www.resologist.net/talent02.htm <br class="br">Wild Talents (1932) <br class="br">Context: My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

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