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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Now
we
shall
have
something
that
is
high
up
in
the
castes
of
the
accursed:
Comptes
Rendus,
1887-182:
That,
upon
June
20,
1887,
in
a
"violent
storm"--two
months
before
the
reported
fall
of
the
symmetric
iron
object
of
Brixton--a
small
stone
had
fallen
from
the
sky
at
Tarbes,
France:
13
millimeters
in
diameter;
5
millimeters
thick;
weight
2
grammes.
Reported
to
the
French
Academy
by
M.
Sudre,
professor
of
the
Normal
School,
Tarbes.
This
time
the
old
convenience
"there
in
the
first
place"
is
too
greatly
resisted--the
stone
was
covered
with
ice.
This
object
had
been
cut
and
shaped
by
means
similar
to
human
hands
and
human
mentality.
It
was
a
disk
of
worked
stone--"tres
regulier."
"Il
a
ete
assurement
travaille."
There's
not
a
word
as
to
any
known
whirlwind
anywhere:
nothing
of
other
objects
or
debris
that
fell
at
or
near
this
date,
in
France.
The
thing
had
fallen
alone.
But
as
mechanically
as
any
part
of
a
machine
responds
to
its
stimulus,
the
explanation
appears
in
Comptes
Rendus
that
this
stone
had
been
raised
by
a
whirlwind
and
then
flung
down.
It
may
be
that
in
the
whole
nineteenth
century
no
event
more
important
than
this
occurred.
In
La
Nature,
1887,
and
in
L'Annee
Scientifique,
1887,
this
occurrence
is
noted.
It
is
mentioned
in
one
of
the
summer
numbers
of
Nature,
1887.
Fassig
lists
a
paper
upon
it
in
the
Annuaire
de
Soc.
Met.,
1887.
Not
a
word
of
discussion.
Not
a
subsequent
mention
can
I
find.
Our
own
expression:
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