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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Or
we
did
have
to
utter
a
little
stress
upon
this
matter,
after
all.
They're
so
hairy
and
attractive,
these
scientists
of
the
19th
century.
We
feel
the
zeal
of
a
Sitting
Bull
when
we
think
of
their
scalps.
We
shall
have
to
have
an
expression
of
our
own
upon
this
confusing
subject.
We
have
expressions:
we
don't
call
them
explanations:
we've
discarded
explanations
with
beliefs.
Though
everyone
who
scalps
is,
in
the
oneness
of
allness,
himself
likely
to
be
scalped,
there
is
such
a
discourtesy
to
an
enemy
as
the
wearing
of
wigs.
Cannon
balls
and
wedges,
and
what
may
they
mean?
Bombardments
of
this
earth--
Attempts
to
communicate--
Or
visitors
to
this
earth,
long
ago--explorers
from
the
moon--taking
back
with
them,
as
curiosities,
perhaps,
implements
of
this
earth's
prehistoric
inhabitants--a
wreck--a
cargo
of
such
things
held
for
ages
in
suspension
in
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea--falling,
or
shaken,
down
occasionally
by
storms--
But,
by
preponderance
of
description,
we
cannot
accept
that
"thunderstones"
ever
were
attached
to
handles,
or
are
prehistoric
axes--
As
to
attempts
to
communicate
with
this
earth
by
means
of
wedge-shaped
objects
especially
adapted
to
the
penetration
of
vast,
gelatinous
areas
spread
around
this
earth--
In
the
Proc.
Roy.
Irish
Acad.,
9-337,
there
is
an
account
of
a
stone
wedge
that
fell
from
the
sky,
near
Cashel,
Tipperary,
Aug.
2,
1865.
The
phenomenon
is
not
questioned,
but
the
orthodox
preference
is
to
call
it,
not
ax-like,
nor
wedge-shaped,
but
"pyramidal."
For
data
of
other
pyramidal
stones
said
to
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
see
Rept.
Brit.
Assoc.,
1861-34.
One
fell
at
Segowolee,
India,
March
6,
1853.
Of
the
object
that
fell
at
Cashel,
Dr.
Haughton
says
in
the
Proceedings:
"A
singular
feature
is
observable
in
this
stone,
that
I
have
never
seen
in
any
other:--the
rounded
edges
of
the
pyramid
are
sharply
marked
by
lines
on
the
black
crust,
as
perfect
as
if
made
by
a
ruler."
Dr.
Haughton's
idea
is
that
the
marks
may
have
been
made
by
"some
peculiar
tension
in
the
cooling."
It
must
have
been
very
peculiar,
if
in
all
aerolites
not
wedge-shaped,
no
such
phenomenon
had
ever
been
observed.
It
merges
away
with
one
or
two
instances
known,
after
Dr.
Haughton's
time,
of
seeming
stratification
in
meteorites.
Stratification
in
meteorites,
however,
is
denied
by
the
faithful.
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