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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
118
L'Astronomie,
1890-313:
That,
upon
the
last
of
January,
1890,
there
fell,
in
a
great
tempest,
in
Switzerland,
incalculable
numbers
of
larvae:
some
black
and
some
yellow;
numbers
so
great
that
hosts
of
birds
were
attracted.
Altogether
we
regard
this
as
one
of
our
neatest
expressions
for
external
origins
and
against
the
whirlwind
explanation.
If
an
exclusionist
says
that,
in
January,
larvae
were
precisely
and
painstakingly
picked
out
of
frozen
ground,
in
incalculable
numbers,
he
thinks
of
a
tremendous
force--disregarding
its
refinements:
then
if
origin
and
precipitation
be
not
far
apart,
what
becomes
of
an
infinitude
of
other
debris,
conceiving
of
no
time
for
segregation?
If
he
thinks
of
a
long
translation--all
the
way
from
the
south
of
France
to
Upper
Savoy,
he
may
think
then
of
a
very
fine
sorting
over
by
differences
of
specific
gravity--but
in
such
a
fine
selection,
larvae
would
be
separated
from
developed
insects.
As
to
differences
in
specific
gravity--the
yellow
larvae
that
fell
in
Switzerland
January,
1890,
were
three
times
the
size
of
the
black
larvae
that
fell
with
them.
In
accounts
of
this
occurrence,
there
is
no
denial
of
the
fall.
Or
that
a
whirlwind
never
brought
them
together
and
held
them
together
and
precipitated
them
and
only
them
together--
That
they
came
from
Genesistrine.
There's
no
escape
from
it.
We'll
be
persecuted
for
it.
Take
it
or
leave
it--
Genesistrine.
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