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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Meerut,
India,
July,
1824
(Living
Age,
52-186);
Fifeshire,
Scotland,
summer
of
1824
(Wernerian
Nat.
Hist.
Soc.
Trans.,
5-575);
Moradabad,
India,
July,
1826
(Living
Age,
52-186);
Ross-shire,
Scotland,
1828
(Living
Age,
52-186);
Moradabad,
India,
July
20,
1829
(Lin.
Soc.
Trans.,
16-764);
Perthshire,
Scotland
(Living
Age,
52-186);
Argyleshire,
Scotland,
1830,
March
9,
1830
(Recreative
Science,
3-339);
Feridpoor,
India,
Feb.
19,
1830
(Jour.
Asiatic
Soc.
of
Bengal,
2-650).
A
psycho-tropism
that
arises
here--disregarding
serial
significance--or
mechanical,
unintelligent,
repulsive
reflex--is
that
the
fishes
of
India
did
not
fall
from
the
sky;
that
they
were
found
upon
the
ground
after
torrential
rains,
because
streams
had
overflowed
and
had
then
receded.
In
the
region
of
Inertness
that
we
think
we
can
conceive
of,
or
a
zone
that
is
to
this
earth's
gravitation
very
much
like
the
neutral
zone
of
a
magnet's
attraction,
we
accept
that
there
are
bodies
of
water
and
also
clear
spaces--bottoms
of
ponds
dropping
out--very
interesting
ponds,
having
no
earth
at
bottom--vast
drops
of
water
afloat
in
what
is
called
space--fishes
and
deluges
of
water
falling--
But
also
other
areas,
in
which
fishes--however
they
got
there:
a
matter
that
we'll
consider--remain
and
dry,
or
even
putrefy,
then
sometimes
falling
by
atmospheric
dislodgment.
After
a
"tremendous
deluge
of
rain,
one
of
the
heaviest
falls
on
record"
(All
the
Year
Round,
8-255)
at
Rajkote,
India,
July
25,
1850,
"the
ground
was
found
literally
covered
with
fishes."
The
word
"found"
is
agreeable
to
the
repulsions
of
the
conventionalists
and
their
concept
of
an
overflowing
stream--but,
according
to
Dr.
Buist,
some
of
these
fishes
were
"found"
on
the
tops
of
haystacks.
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