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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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That,
in
the
Leyden
Museum
of
Antiquities,
there
is
a
disk
of
quartz:
6
centimeters
by
5
millimeters
by
about
5
centimeters;
said
to
have
fallen
upon
a
plantation
in
the
Dutch
West
Indies,
after
a
meteoric
explosion.
Bricks.
I
think
this
is
a
vice
we're
writing.
I
recommend
it
to
those
who
have
hankered
for
a
new
sin.
At
first
some
of
our
data
were
of
so
frightful
or
ridiculous
mien
as
to
be
hated,
or
eyebrowed,
was
only
to
be
seen.
Then
some
pity
crept
in?
I
think
that
we
can
now
embrace
bricks.
The
baked-clay-idea
was
all
right
in
its
place,
but
it
rather
lacks
distinction,
I
think.
With
our
minds
upon
the
concrete
boats
that
have
been
building
terrestrially
lately,
and
thinking
of
wrecks
that
may
occur
to
some
of
them,
and
of
a
new
material
for
the
deep-sea
fishes
to
disregard--
Object
that
fell
at
Richland,
South
Carolina--yellow
to
gray--said
to
look
like
a
piece
of
brick.
(Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
2-34-298.)
Pieces
of
"furnace-made
brick"
said
to
have
fallen--in
a
hailstorm--at
Padua,
August,
1834.
(Edin.
New
Phil.
Jour.,
19-87.)
The
writer
offered
an
explanation
that
started
another
convention:
that
the
fragments
of
brick
had
been
knocked
from
buildings
by
the
hailstones.
But
there
is
here
a
concomitant
that
will
be
disagreeable
to
anyone
who
may
have
been
inclined
to
smile
at
the
now
digestible--enough
notion
that
furnace-made
bricks
have
fallen
from
the
sky.
It
is
that
in
some
of
the
hailstones--two
per
cent
of
them--that
were
found
with
the
pieces
of
brick,
was
a
light
grayish
powder.
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