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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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"Abandon
Hope."
If
a
Mr.
Symons
mentions
one
instance
of
coal,
or
of
slag
or
cinders,
said
to
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
we
are
not--except
by
association
with
the
"carbonaceous"
meteorites--strong
in
our
impression
that
coal
sometimes
falls
to
this
earth
from
coal-burning
super-constructions
up
somewhere--
In
Comptes
Rendus,
91-197,
M.
Daubree
tells
the
same
story.
Our
acceptance,
then,
is
that
other
curators
could
tell
this
same
story.
Then
the
phantomosity
of
our
impression
substantiates
proportionately
to
its
multiplicity.
M.
Daubree
says
that
often
have
strange
damned
things
been
sent
to
the
French
museums,
accompanied
by
assurances
that
they
had
been
seen
to
fall
from
the
sky.
Especially
to
our
interest,
he
mentions
coal
and
slag.
Excluded.
Buried
un-named
and
undated
in
Science's
potter's
field.
I
do
not
say
that
the
data
of
the
damned
should
have
the
same
rights
as
the
data
of
the
saved.
That
would
be
justice.
That
would
be
of
the
Positive
Absolute,
and,
though
the
ideal
of,
a
violation
of,
the
very
essence
of
quasi-existence,
wherein
only
to
have
the
appearance
of
being
is
to
express
a
preponderance
of
force
one
way
or
another--or
inequilibrium,
or
inconsistency,
or
injustice.
Our
acceptance
is
that
the
passing
away
of
exclusionism
is
a
phenomenon
of
the
twentieth
century:
that
gods
of
the
twentieth
century
will
sustain
our
notions
be
they
ever
so
unwashed
and
frowsy.
But,
in
our
own
expressions,
we
are
limited,
by
the
oneness
of
quasiness,
to
the
very
same
methods
by
which
orthodoxy
established
and
maintains
its
now
sleek,
suave
preposterousnesses.
At
any
rate,
though
we
are
inspired
by
an
especial
subtle
essence--or
imponderable,
I
think--that
pervades
the
twentieth
century,
we
have
not
the
superstition
that
we
are
offering
anything
as
a
positive
fact.
Rather
often
we
have
not
the
delusion
that
we're
any
less
superstitious
and
credulous
than
any
logician,
savage,
curator,
or
rustic.
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