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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
132
But
it's
my
acceptance
that
a
great
deal
of
scientific
literature
must
be
read
between
the
lines.
It's
not
everyone
who
has
the
lamentableness
of
a
Sir
John
Evans.
Just
as
a
great
deal
of
Voltaire's
meaning
was
inter-linear,
we
suspect
that
a
Captain
Duff
merely
hints
rather
than
to
risk
having
a
Prof.
Lawrence
Smith
fly
at
him
and
call
him
"a
half-insane
man."
Whatever
Captain
Duff's
meaning
may
have
been,
and
whether
he
smiled
like
a
Voltaire
when
he
wrote
it,
Captain
Duff
writes
of
"the
extremely
soft
nature
of
the
stone,
rendering
it
equally
useless
as
an
offensive
or
defensive
weapon."
Story,
by
a
correspondent,
in
Nature,
34-53,
of
a
Malay,
of
"considerable
social
standing"--and
one
thing
about
our
data
is
that,
damned
though
they
be,
they
do
so
often
bring
us
into
awful
good
company--who
knew
of
a
tree
that
had
been
struck,
about
a
month
before,
by
something
in
a
thunderstorm.
He
searched
among
the
roots
of
this
tree
and
found
a
"thunderstone."
Not
said
whether
he
jumped
or
leaped
to
the
conclusion
that
it
had
fallen:
process
likely
to
be
more
leisurely
in
tropical
countries.
Also
I'm
afraid
his
way
of
reasoning
was
not
very
original:
just
so
were
fragments
of
the
Bath-furnace
meteorite,
accepted
by
orthodoxy,
discovered.
We
shall
now
have
an
unusual
experience.
We
shall
read
of
some
reports
of
extraordinary
circumstances
that
were
investigated
by
a
man
of
science--not
of
course
that
they
were
really
investigated
by
him,
but
that
his
phenomena
occupied
a
position
approximating
higher
to
real
investigation
than
to
utter
neglect.
Over
and
over
we
read
of
extraordinary
occurrences--no
discussion;
not
even
a
comment
afterward
findable;
mere
mention
occasionally--burial
and
damnation.
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