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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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The
notion
is
that
there
is
somewhere
aloft
a
place
of
origin
of
life
relatively
to
this
earth.
Whether
it's
the
planet
Genesistrine,
or
the
moon,
or
a
vast
amorphous
region
super-jacent
to
this
earth,
or
an
island
in
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea,
should
perhaps
be
left
to
the
researches
of
other
super--or
extra--geographers.
That
the
first
unicellular
organisms
may
have
come
here
from
Genesistrine--or
that
men
or
anthropomorphic
beings
may
have
come
here
before
amoebae:
that,
upon
Genesistrine,
there
may
have
been
an
evolution
expressible
in
conventional
biologic
terms,
but
that
evolution
upon
this
earth
has
been--like
evolution
in
modern
Japan--induced
by
external
influences;
that
evolution,
as
a
whole,
upon
this
earth,
has
been
a
process
of
population
by
immigration
or
by
bombardment.
Some
notes
I
have
upon
remains
of
men
and
animals
encysted,
or
covered
with
clay
or
stone,
as
if
fired
here
as
projectiles,
I
omit
now,
because
it
seems
best
to
regard
the
whole
phenomenon
as
a
tropism--as
a
geotropism--probably
atavistic,
or
vestigial,
as
it
were,
or
something
still
continuing
long
after
expiration
of
necessity;
that,
once
upon
a
time,
all
kinds
of
things
came
here
from
Genesistrine,
but
that
now
only
a
few
kinds
of
bugs
and
things,
at
long
intervals,
feel
the
inspiration.
Not
one
instance
have
we
of
tadpoles
that
have
fallen
to
this
earth.
It
seems
reasonable
that
a
whirlwind
could
scoop
up
a
pond,
frogs
and
all,
and
cast
down
the
frogs
somewhere
else:
but,
then,
more
reasonable
that
a
whirlwind
could
scoop
up
a
pond,
tadpoles
and
all--because
tadpoles
are
more
numerous
in
their
season
than
are
the
frogs
in
theirs:
but
the
tadpole-season
is
earlier
in
the
spring,
or
in
a
time
that
is
more
tempestuous.
Thinking
in
terms
of
causation--as
if
there
were
real
causes--our
notion
is
that,
if
X
is
likely
to
cause
Y,
but
is
more
likely
to
cause
Z,
but
does
not
cause
Z,
X
is
not
the
cause
of
Y.
Upon
this
quasi-sorites,
we
base
our
acceptance
that
the
little
frogs
that
have
fallen
to
this
earth
are
not
products
of
whirlwinds:
that
they
came
from
externality,
or
from
Genesistrine.
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