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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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That
the
bottom
of
a
super-geographical
pond
had
dropped
out.
I
have
a
great
many
notes
upon
the
fall
of
fishes,
despite
the
difficulty
these
records
have
in
getting
themselves
published,
but
I
pick
out
the
instances
that
especially
relate
to
our
super-geographical
acceptances,
or
to
the
Principles
of
Super-Geography:
or
data
of
things
that
have
been
in
the
air
longer
than
acceptably
could
a
whirlwind
carry
them;
that
have
fallen
with
a
distribution
narrower
than
is
attributable
to
a
whirlwind;
that
have
fallen
for
a
considerable
length
of
time
upon
the
same
narrow
area
of
land.
These
three
factors
indicate,
somewhere
not
far
aloft,
a
region
of
inertness
to
this
earth's
gravitation,
of
course,
however,
a
region
that,
by
the
flux
and
variation
of
all
things,
must
at
times
be
susceptible--but,
afterward,
our
heresy
will
bifurcate--
In
amiable
accommodation
to
the
crucifixion
it'll
get,
I
think--
But
so
impressed
are
we
with
the
datum
that,
though
there
have
been
many
reports
of
small
frogs
that
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
not
one
report
upon
a
fall
of
tadpoles
is
findable,
that
to
these
circumstances
another
adjustment
must
be
made.
Apart
from
our
three
factors
of
indication,
an
extraordinary
observation
is
the
fall
of
living
things
without
injury
to
them.
The
devotees
of
St.
Isaac
explain
that
they
fall
upon
thick
grass
and
so
survive:
but
Sir
James
Emerson
Tennant,
in
his
History
of
Ceylon,
tells
of
a
fall
of
fishes
upon
gravel,
by
which
they
were
seemingly
uninjured.
Something
else
apart
from
our
three
main
interests
is
a
phenomenon
that
looks
like
what
one
might
call
an
alternating
series
of
falls
of
fishes,
whatever
the
significance
may
be:
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