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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
113
Monthly
Weather
Review,
Jan.
15,
1877:
That,
in
Memphis,
Tenn.,
Jan.
15,
1877,
rather
strictly
localized,
or
"in
a
space
of
two
blocks,"
and
after
a
violent
storm
in
which
the
rain
"fell
in
torrents,"
snakes
were
found.
They
were
crawling
on
sidewalks,
in
yards,
and
in
streets,
and
in
masses--but
"none
were
found
on
roofs
or
any
other
elevation
above
ground"
and
"none
were
seen
to
fall."
If
you
prefer
to
believe
that
the
snakes
had
always
been
there,
or
had
been
upon
the
ground
in
the
first
place,
and
that
it
was
only
that
something
occurred
to
call
special
attention
to
them,
in
the
streets
of
Memphis,
Jan.
15,
1877--why,
that's
sensible:
that's
the
common
sense
that
has
been
against
us
from
the
first.
It
is
not
said
whether
the
snakes
were
of
a
known
species
or
not,
but
that
"when
first
seen,
they
were
of
a
dark
brown,
almost
black."
Blacksnakes,
I
suppose.
If
we
accept
that
these
snakes
did
fall,
even
though
not
seen
to
fall
by
all
the
persons
who
were
out
sight-seeing
in
a
violent
storm,
and
had
not
been
in
the
streets
crawling
loose
or
in
thick
tangled
masses,
in
the
first
place:
If
we
try
to
accept
that
these
snakes
had
been
raised
from
some
other
part
of
this
earth's
surface
in
a
whirlwind:
If
we
try
to
accept
that
a
whirlwind
could
segregate
them--
We
accept
the
segregation
of
other
objects
raised
in
that
whirlwind.
Then,
near
the
place
of
origin,
there
would
have
been
a
fall
of
heavier
objects
that
had
been
snatched
up
with
the
snakes--stones,
fence
rails,
limbs
of
trees.
Say
that
the
snakes
occupied
the
next
gradation,
and
would
be
the
next
to
fall.
Still
farther
would
there
have
been
separate
falls
of
lightest
objects:
leaves,
twigs,
tufts
of
grass.
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