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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Shoemaking
and
celestiality.
It
is
so
easy
to
say
that
axes,
or
wedge-shaped
stones
found
on
the
ground,
were
there
in
the
first
place,
and
that
it
is
only
coincidence
that
lightning
should
strike
near
one--but
the
credibility
of
coincidences
decreases
as
the
square
root
of
their
volume,
I
think.
Our
massed
instances
speak
too
much
of
coincidences
of
coincidences.
But
the
axes,
or
wedge-shaped
objects
that
have
been
found
in
trees,
are
more
difficult
for
orthodoxy.
For
instance,
Arago
accepts
that
such
finds
have
occurred,
but
he
argues
that,
if
wedge-shaped
stones
have
been
found
in
tree
trunks,
so
have
toads
been
found
in
tree
trunks--did
the
toads
fall
there?
Not
at
all
bad
for
a
hypnotic.
Of
course,
in
our
acceptance,
the
Irish
are
the
Chosen
People.
It's
because
they
are
characteristically
best
in
accord
with
the
underlying
essence
of
quasi-existence.
M.
Arago
answers
a
question
by
asking
another
question.
That's
the
only
way
a
question
can
be
answered
in
our
Hibernian
kind
of
an
existence.
Dr.
Bodding
argued
with
the
natives
of
the
Santal
Parganas,
India,
who
said
that
cut
and
shaped
stones
had
fallen
from
the
sky,
some
of
them
lodging
in
tree
trunks.
Dr.
Bodding,
with
orthodox
notions
of
velocity
of
falling
bodies,
having
missed,
I
suppose,
some
of
the
notes
I
have
upon
large
hailstones,
which,
for
size,
have
fallen
with
astonishingly
low
velocity,
argued
that
anything
falling
from
the
sky
would
be
"smashed
to
atoms."
He
accepts
that
objects
of
worked
stone
have
been
found
in
tree
trunks,
but
he
explains:
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