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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Over
and
over
has
the
note
of
disagreeableness,
or
of
putrefaction,
been
struck--long
duration.
Other
indications
of
long
duration.
I
think
of
a
region
somewhere
above
this
earth's
surface
in
which
gravitation
is
inoperative
and
is
not
governed
by
the
square
of
the
distance--quite
as
magnetism
is
negligible
at
a
very
short
distance
from
a
magnet.
Theoretically
the
attraction
of
a
magnet
should
decrease
with
the
square
of
the
distance,
but
the
falling-off
is
found
to
be
almost
abrupt
at
a
short
distance.
I
think
that
things
raised
from
this
earth's
surface
to
that
region
have
been
held
there
until
shaken
down
by
storms--
The
Super-Sargasso
Sea.
Derelicts,
rubbish,
old
cargoes
from
inter-planetary
wrecks;
things
cast
out
into
what
is
called
space
by
convulsions
of
other
planets,
things
from
the
times
of
the
Alexanders,
Caesars
and
Napoleons
of
Mars
and
Jupiter
and
Neptune;
things
raised
by
this
earth's
cyclones:
horses
and
barns
and
elephants
and
flies
and
dodoes,
moas,
and
pterodactyls;
leaves
from
modern
trees
and
leaves
of
the
Carboniferous
era--all,
however,
tending
to
disintegrate
into
homogeneous-looking
muds
or
dusts,
red
or
black
or
yellow--treasure-troves
for
the
palaeontologists
and
for
the
archaeologists--accumulations
of
centuries--cyclones
of
Egypt,
Greece,
and
Assyria--fishes
dried
and
hard,
there
a
short
time:
others
there
long
enough
to
putrefy--
But
the
omnipresence
of
Heterogeneity--or
living
fishes,
also--ponds
of
fresh
water:
oceans
of
salt
water.
As
to
the
Law
of
Gravitation,
I
prefer
to
take
one
simple
stand:
Orthodoxy
accepts
the
correlation
and
equivalence
of
forces:
Gravitation
is
one
of
these
forces.
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