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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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We're
making
excuses
for
them.
Really--as
it
were--you
know,
we're
not
quite
so
damned
as
we
were.
One
does
not
apologize
for
the
gods
and
at
the
same
time
feel
quite
utterly
prostrate
before
them.
If
this
were
a
real
existence,
and
all
of
us
real
persons,
with
real
standards
to
judge
by,
I'm
afraid
we'd
have
to
be
a
little
severe
with
some
of
these
Mr.
Symonses.
As
it
is,
of
course,
seriousness
seems
out
of
place.
We
note
an
amusing
little
touch
in
the
indefinite
allusion
to
"a
man,"
who
with
his
un-named
family,
had
"considered"
that
he
had
seen
a
stone
fall.
The
"man"
was
the
Rev.
W.
Carus-Wilson,
who
was
well-known
in
his
day.
The
next
instance
was
reported
by
W.B.
Tripp,
F.R.M.S.--that,
during
a
thunderstorm,
a
farmer
had
seen
the
ground
in
front
of
him
plowed
up
by
something
that
was
luminous.
Dug.
Bronze
ax.
My
own
notion
is
that
an
expedition
to
the
North
Pole
could
not
be
so
urgent
as
that
representative
scientists
should
have
gone
to
that
farmer
and
there
spent
a
summer
studying
this
one
reported
occurrence.
As
it
is--un-named
farmer--somewhere--no
date.
The
thing
must
stay
damned.
Another
specimen
for
our
museum
is
a
comment
in
Nature
upon
these
objects:
that
they
are
"of
an
amusing
character,
thus
clearly
showing
that
they
were
of
terrestrial,
and
not
a
celestial,
character."
Just
why
celestiality,
or
that
of
it
which,
too,
is
only
of
Intermediateness
should
not
be
quite
as
amusing
as
terrestriality
is
beyond
our
reasoning
powers,
which
we
have
agreed
are
not
ordinary.
Of
course
there
is
nothing
amusing
about
wedges
and
spheres
at
all--or
Archimedes
and
Euclid
are
humorists.
It
is
that
they
were
described
derisively.
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you'd
like
a
little
specimen
of
the
standardization
of
orthodox
opinion--
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