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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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What
matters
it
how
we,
the
French
Academy,
or
the
Salvation
Army
may
explain?
A
disk
of
worked
stone
fell
from
the
sky,
at
Tarbes,
France,
June
20,
1887.
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My
own
pseudo-conclusion:
That
we've
been
damned
by
giants
sound
asleep,
or
by
great
scientific
principles
and
abstractions
that
cannot
realize
themselves:
that
little
harlots
have
visited
their
caprices
upon
us;
that
clowns,
with
buckets
of
water
from
which
they
pretend
to
cast
thousands
of
good-sized
fishes
have
anathematized
us
for
laughing
disrespectfully,
because,
as
with
all
clowns,
underlying
buffoonery
is
the
desire
to
be
taken
seriously;
that
pale
ignorances,
presiding
over
microscopes
by
which
they
cannot
distinguish
flesh
from
nostoc
or
fishes'
spawn
or
frogs'
spawn,
have
visited
upon
us
their
wan
solemnities.
We've
been
damned
by
corpses
and
skeletons
and
mummies,
which
twitch
and
totter
with
pseudo-life
derived
from
conveniences.
Or
there
is
only
hypnosis.
The
accursed
are
those
who
admit
they're
the
accursed.
If
we
be
more
nearly
real
we
are
reasons
arraigned
before
a
jury
of
dream-phantasms.
Of
all
meteorites
in
museums,
very
few
were
seen
to
fall.
It
is
considered
sufficient
grounds
for
admission
if
specimens
can't
be
accounted
for
in
any
way
other
than
that
they
fell
from
the
sky--as
if
in
the
haze
of
uncertainty
that
surrounds
all
things,
or
that
is
the
essence
of
everything,
or
in
the
merging
away
of
everything
into
something
else,
there
could
be
anything
that
could
be
accounted
for
in
only
one
way.
The
scientist
and
the
theologian
reason
that
if
something
can
be
accounted
for
in
only
one
way,
it
is
accounted
for
in
that
way--or
logic
would
be
logical,
if
the
conditions
that
it
imposes,
but,
of
course,
does
not
insist
upon,
could
anywhere
be
found
in
quasi-existence.
In
our
acceptance,
logic,
science,
art,
religion
are,
in
our
"existence,"
premonitions
of
a
coming
awakening,
like
dawning
awarenesses
of
surroundings
in
the
mind
of
a
dreamer.
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