The Book of the Damned

audiobook

The Book of the Damned

by Charles Fort

EN·~11 hours·28 chapters

Chapters

28 total
1

1

26:57
2

2

12:09
3

3

39:57
4

4

21:16
5

5

36:49
6

6

30:57
7

7

40:22
8

8

58:58
9

9

19:36
10

10

20:21

Description

A fever‑dream of ideas rushes forward like a grotesque parade, each “damned” element a discarded fragment of knowledge that science has labeled unworthy. The narrator gathers myths, theorems, clowns and corpses into a single, relentless procession, using vivid, almost theatrical language to question how we decide what counts as real and what is cast aside. By turning classification itself into a spectacle, the work exposes the fragile foundations of certainty and invites listeners to watch the absurdity of every supposed boundary.

The book unfolds as a lyrical critique of dogmatic thinking, blending philosophy, satire and speculative imagination. It asks whether any positive difference truly exists or whether all distinctions are merely shades of a continuous whole, like red merging into yellow. Listeners will be drawn into a rhythm of ideas that challenges the comfort of “being” and suggests that exclusion and inclusion are two sides of the same ever‑shifting melody.

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Language

en

Duration

~11 hours (643K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Julie Barkley, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2007-08-31

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Charles Fort

Charles Fort

1874–1932

A pioneering collector of the strange and unexplained, remembered for turning odd reports and scientific outliers into books that still spark curiosity. His work was so distinctive that the word "Fortean" grew from his name.

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