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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.
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.

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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