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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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He
met
one
person
who
said
that
he
had
seen
the
snails
fall.
"This
was
his
error,"
says
the
investigator.
In
the
Philosophical
Magazine,
58-310,
there
is
an
account
of
snails
said
to
have
fallen
at
Bristol
in
a
field
of
three
acres,
in
such
quantities
that
they
were
shoveled
up.
It
is
said
that
the
snails
"may
be
considered
as
a
local
species."
Upon
page
457,
another
correspondent
says
that
the
numbers
had
been
exaggerated,
and
that
in
his
opinion
they
had
been
upon
the
ground
in
the
first
place.
But
that
there
had
been
some
unusual
condition
aloft
comes
out
in
his
observation
upon
"the
curious
azure-blue
appearance
of
the
sun,
at
the
time."
Nature,
47-278:
That,
according
to
Das
Wetter,
December,
1892,
upon
Aug.
9,
1892,
a
yellow
cloud
appeared
over
Paderborn,
Germany.
From
this
cloud,
fell
a
torrential
rain,
in
which
were
hundreds
of
mussels.
There
is
no
mention
of
whatever
may
have
been
upon
the
ground
in
the
first
place,
nor
of
a
whirlwind.
Lizards--said
to
have
fallen
on
the
sidewalks
of
Montreal,
Canada,
Dec.
28,
1857.
(Notes
and
Queries,
8-6-104.)
In
the
Scientific
American,
3-112,
a
correspondent
writes,
from
South
Granville,
N.Y.,
that,
during
a
heavy
shower,
July
3,
1860,
he
heard
a
peculiar
sound
at
his
feet,
and
looking
down,
saw
a
snake
lying
as
if
stunned
by
a
fall.
It
then
came
to
life.
Gray
snake,
about
a
foot
long.
These
data
have
any
meaning
or
lack
of
meaning
or
degree
of
damnation
you
please:
but,
in
the
matter
of
the
fall
that
occurred
at
Memphis,
Tennessee,
occur
some
strong
significances.
Our
quasi-reasoning
upon
this
subject
applies
to
all
segregations
so
far
considered.
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