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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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An
orthodox
demonstration,
in
terms
of
which
we
shall
have
some
heresies,
is
that
if
things
found
in
coal
could
have
got
there
only
by
falling
there--they
fell
there.
So,
in
the
Manchester
Lit.
and
Phil.
Soc.
Mems.,
2-9-306,
it
is
argued
that
certain
roundish
stones
that
have
been
found
in
coal
are
"fossil
aerolites":
that
they
had
fallen
from
the
sky,
ages
ago,
when
the
coal
was
soft,
because
the
coal
had
closed
around
them,
showing
no
sign
of
entrance.
Proc.
Soc.
of
Antiq.
of
Scotland,
1-1-121:
That,
in
a
lump
of
coal,
from
a
mine
in
Scotland,
an
iron
instrument
had
been
found--
"The
interest
attaching
to
this
singular
relic
arises
from
the
fact
of
its
having
been
found
in
the
heart
of
a
piece
of
coal,
seven
feet
under
the
surface."
If
we
accept
that
this
object
of
iron
was
of
workmanship
beyond
the
means
and
skill
of
the
primitive
men
who
may
have
lived
in
Scotland
when
coal
was
forming
there--
"The
instrument
was
considered
to
be
modern."
That
our
expression
has
more
of
realness,
or
higher
approximation
to
realness,
than
has
the
attempt
to
explain
that
is
made
in
the
Proceedings:
That
in
modern
times
someone
may
have
bored
for
coal,
and
that
his
drill
may
have
broken
off
in
the
coal
it
had
penetrated.
Why
he
should
have
abandoned
such
easily
accessible
coal,
I
don't
know.
The
important
point
is
that
there
was
no
sign
of
boring:
that
this
instrument
was
in
a
lump
of
coal
that
had
closed
around
it
so
that
its
presence
was
not
suspected,
until
the
lump
of
coal
was
broken.
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