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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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According
to
Dr.
Buist,
some
of
these
fishes
weighed
one
and
a
half
pounds
each
and
others
three
pounds.
A
fall
of
fishes
at
Futtepoor,
India,
May
16,
1833:
"They
were
all
dead
and
dry."
(Dr.
Buist,
Living
Age,
52-186.)
India
is
far
away:
about
1830
was
long
ago.
Nature,
Sept.
19,
1918-46:
A
correspondent
writes,
from
the
Dove
Marine
Laboratory,
Cuttercoats,
England,
that,
at
Hindon,
a
suburb
of
Sunderland,
Aug.
24,
1918,
hundreds
of
small
fishes,
identified
as
sand
eels,
had
fallen--
Again
the
small
area:
about
60
by
30
yards.
The
fall
occurred
during
a
heavy
rain
that
was
accompanied
by
thunder--or
indications
of
disturbance
aloft--but
by
no
visible
lightning.
The
sea
is
close
to
Hindon,
but
if
you
try
to
think
of
these
fishes
having
described
a
trajectory
in
a
whirlwind
from
the
ocean,
consider
this
remarkable
datum:
That,
according
to
witnesses,
the
fall
upon
this
small
area
occupied
ten
minutes.
I
cannot
think
of
a
clearer
indication
of
a
direct
fall
from
a
stationary
source.
And:
"The
fish
were
all
dead,
and
indeed
stiff
and
hard,
when
picked
up,
immediately
after
the
occurrence."
By
all
of
which
I
mean
that
we
have
only
begun
to
pile
up
our
data
of
things
that
fall
from
a
stationary
source
overhead:
we'll
have
to
take
up
the
subject
from
many
approaches
before
our
acceptance,
which
seems
quite
as
rigorously
arrived
at
as
ever
has
been
a
belief,
can
emerge
from
the
accursed.
I
don't
know
how
much
the
horse
and
the
barn
will
help
us
to
emerge:
but,
if
ever
anything
did
go
up
from
this
earth's
surface
and
stay
up--those
damned
things
may
have:
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
