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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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But
that
all
scientific
attempts
really
to
find
out
something,
whereas
really
there
is
nothing
to
find
out,
are
attempts,
themselves,
really
to
be
something.
A
seeker
of
Truth.
He
will
never
find
it.
But
the
dimmest
of
possibilities--he
may
himself
become
Truth.
Or
that
science
is
more
than
an
inquiry:
That
it
is
a
pseudo-construction,
or
a
quasi-organization:
that
it
is
an
attempt
to
break
away
and
locally
establish
harmony,
stability,
equilibrium,
consistency,
entity--
Dimmest
of
possibilities--that
it
may
succeed.
That
ours
is
a
pseudo-existence,
and
that
all
appearances
in
it
partake
of
its
essential
fictitiousness--
But
that
some
appearances
approximate
far
more
highly
to
the
positive
state
than
do
others.
We
conceive
of
all
"things"
as
occupying
gradations,
or
steps
in
series
between
positiveness
and
negativeness,
or
realness
and
unrealness:
that
some
seeming
things
are
more
nearly
consistent,
just,
beautiful,
unified,
individual,
harmonious,
stable--than
others.
We
are
not
realists.
We
are
not
idealists.
We
are
intermediatists--that
nothing
is
real,
but
that
nothing
is
unreal:
that
all
phenomena
are
approximations
one
way
or
the
other
between
realness
and
unrealness.
So
then:
That
our
whole
quasi-existence
is
an
intermediate
stage
between
positiveness
and
negativeness
or
realness
and
unrealness.
Like
purgatory,
I
think.
But
in
our
summing
up,
which
was
very
sketchily
done,
we
omitted
to
make
clear
that
Realness
is
an
aspect
of
the
positive
state.
By
Realness,
I
mean
that
which
does
not
merge
away
into
something
else,
and
that
which
is
not
partly
something
else:
that
which
is
not
a
reaction
to,
or
an
imitation
of,
something
else.
By
a
real
hero,
we
mean
one
who
is
not
partly
a
coward,
or
whose
actions
and
motives
do
not
merge
away
into
cowardice.
But,
if
in
Continuity,
all
things
do
merge,
by
Realness,
I
mean
the
Universal,
besides
which
there
is
nothing
with
which
to
merge.
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