pretensions. It's nice to deflate self-important spokespeople who think they know the answers. And of course there's the wonderful possibility that one day something will be true and seal our names in stone forever. But really, it's the surrealness, the comedy."
The rest of the staff and enthusiastic part-timers are a bunch of the brightest, wryest cynics and skeptics you'll ever meet. Crazed laughter and spontaneous giggling punctuates every conversation. They all date their love of the weird back to childhood interests in dinosaurs and science fiction.
At the time of writing, I started up an e-mail correspondence with a young academic and Fortean Times contributor in Australia. He was delighted that I was expressing an interest in his hobby, and expressed his feelings in a letter that stretched to several thousand words:
