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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
143
But
the
other
members
of
the
Institute
decided
that
the
object
was
spurious,
because
it
was
not
of
"true
meteoritic
material."
No
date;
no
place
mentioned;
we
note
the
suggestion
that
it
was
only
a
geode,
which
had
been
upon
the
ground
in
the
first
place.
Its
crystalline
lining
was
geode-like.
Quartz
is
upon
the
"index
prohibitory"
of
Science.
A
monk
who
would
read
Darwin
would
sin
no
more
than
would
a
scientist
who
would
admit
that,
except
by
the
"up
and
down"
process,
quartz
has
ever
fallen
from
the
sky--but
Continuity:
it
is
not
excommunicated
if
part
of
or
incorporated
in
a
baptized
meteorite--St.
Catherine's
of
Mexico,
I
think.
It's
as
epicurean
a
distinction
as
any
ever
made
by
theologians.
Fassig
lists
a
quartz
pebble,
found
in
a
hailstone
(Bibliography,
part
2-355).
"Up
and
down,"
of
course.
Another
object
of
quartzite
was
reported
to
have
fallen,
in
the
autumn
of
1880,
at
Schroon
Lake,
N.Y.--said
in
the
Scientific
American,
43-272
to
be
a
fraud--it
was
not--the
usual.
About
the
first
of
May,
1899,
the
newspapers
published
a
story
of
a
"snow-white"
meteorite
that
had
fallen,
at
Vincennes,
Indiana.
The
Editor
of
the
Monthly
Weather
Review
(issue
of
April,
1899)
requested
the
local
observer,
at
Vincennes,
to
investigate.
The
Editor
says
that
the
thing
was
only
a
fragment
of
a
quartz
boulder.
He
says
that
anyone
with
at
least
a
public
school
education
should
know
better
than
to
write
that
quartz
has
ever
fallen
from
the
sky.
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