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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
111
Science
Gossip,
1886-238:
That
small
snails,
of
a
land
species,
had
fallen
near
Redruth,
Cornwall,
July
8,
1886,
"during
a
heavy
thunderstorm":
roads
and
fields
strewn
with
them,
so
that
they
were
gathered
up
by
the
hatful:
none
seen
to
fall
by
the
writer
of
this
account:
snails
said
to
be
"quite
different
to
any
previously
known
in
this
district."
But,
upon
page
282,
we
have
better
orthodoxy.
Another
correspondent
writes
that
he
had
heard
of
the
supposed
fall
of
snails:
that
he
had
supposed
that
all
such
stories
had
gone
the
way
of
witch
stories;
that,
to
his
astonishment,
he
had
read
an
account
of
this
absurd
story
in
a
local
newspaper
of
"great
and
deserved
repute."
"I
thought
I
should
for
once
like
to
trace
the
origin
of
one
of
these
fabulous
tales."
Our
own
acceptance
is
that
justice
cannot
be
in
an
intermediate
existence,
in
which
there
can
be
approximation
only
to
justice
or
to
injustice;
that
to
be
fair
is
to
have
no
opinion
at
all;
that
to
be
honest
is
to
be
uninterested;
that
to
investigate
is
to
admit
prejudice;
that
nobody
has
ever
really
investigated
anything,
but
has
always
sought
positively
to
prove
or
to
disprove
something
that
was
conceived
of,
or
suspected,
in
advance.
"As
I
suspected,"
says
this
correspondent,
"I
found
that
the
snails
were
of
a
familiar
land-species"--that
they
had
been
upon
the
ground
"in
the
first
place."
He
found
that
the
snails
had
appeared
after
the
rain:
that
"astonished
rustics
had
jumped
to
the
conclusion
that
they
had
fallen."
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