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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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But
that
all
that
we
call
"being"
is
motion:
and
that
all
motion
is
the
expression,
not
of
equilibrium,
but
of
equilibrating,
or
of
equilibrium
unattained:
that
life-motions
are
expressions
of
equilibrium
unattained:
that
all
thought
relates
to
the
unattained:
that
to
have
what
is
called
being
in
our
quasi-state,
is
not
to
be
in
the
positive
sense,
or
is
to
be
intermediate
to
Equilibrium
and
Inequilibrium.
So
then:
That
all
phenomena
in
our
intermediate
state,
or
quasi-state,
represent
this
one
attempt
to
organize,
stabilize,
harmonize,
individualize--or
to
positivize,
or
to
become
real:
That
only
to
have
seeming
is
to
express
failure
or
intermediateness
to
final
failure
and
final
success:
That
every
attempt--that
is
observable--is
defeated
by
Continuity,
or
by
outside
forces--or
by
the
excluded
that
are
continuous
with
the
included:
That
our
whole
"existence"
is
an
attempt
by
the
relative
to
be
the
absolute,
or
by
the
local
to
be
the
universal.
In
this
book,
my
interest
is
in
this
attempt
as
manifested
in
modern
science:
That
it
has
attempted
to
be
real,
true,
final,
complete,
absolute:
That,
if
the
seeming
of
being,
here,
in
our
quasi-state,
is
the
product
of
exclusion
that
is
always
false
and
arbitrary,
if
always
are
included
and
excluded
continuous,
the
whole
seeming
system,
or
entity,
of
modern
science
is
only
quasi-system,
or
quasi-entity,
wrought
by
the
same
false
and
arbitrary
process
as
that
by
which
the
still
less
positive
system
that
preceded
it,
or
the
theological
system,
wrought
the
illusion
of
its
being.
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