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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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I
begin
to
suspect
something
else.
A
whopper
is
coming.
Later
it
will
be
as
reasonable,
by
familiarity,
as
anything
else
ever
said.
If
someone
should
study
the
stone
of
Cashel,
as
Champollion
studied
the
Rosetta
stone,
he
might--or,
rather,
would
inevitably--find
meaning
in
those
lines,
and
translate
them
into
English--
Nevertheless
I
begin
to
suspect
something
else:
something
more
subtle
and
esoteric
than
graven
characters
upon
stones
that
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
in
attempts
to
communicate.
The
notion
that
other
worlds
are
attempting
to
communicate
with
this
world
is
widespread:
my
own
notion
is
that
it
is
not
attempt
at
all--that
it
was
achievement
centuries
ago.
I
should
like
to
send
out
a
report
that
a
"thunderstone"
had
fallen,
say,
somewhere
in
New
Hampshire--
And
keep
track
of
every
person
who
came
to
examine
that
stone--trace
down
his
affiliations--keep
track
of
him--
Then
send
out
a
report
that
a
"thunderstone"
had
fallen
at
Stockholm,
say--
Would
one
of
the
persons
who
had
gone
to
New
Hampshire,
be
met
again
in
Stockholm?
But--what
if
he
had
no
anthropological,
lapidarian,
or
meteorological
affiliations--but
did
belong
to
a
secret
society--
It
is
only
a
dawning
credulity.
Of
the
three
forms
of
symmetric
objects
that
have,
or
haven't,
fallen
from
the
sky,
it
seems
to
me
that
the
disk
is
the
most
striking.
So
far,
in
this
respect,
we
have
been
at
our
worst--possibly
that's
pretty
bad--but
"lapstones"
are
likely
to
be
of
considerable
variety
of
form,
and
something
that
is
said
to
have
fallen
at
sometime
somewhere
in
the
Dutch
West
Indies
is
profoundly
of
the
unchosen.
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