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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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No
mention
can
I
find
of
this
damned
thing
in
any
other
publication.
Of
course
there
is
an
alternative
here:
the
thing
may
not
have
fallen
from
the
sky:
if
in
coal-forming
times,
in
Scotland,
there
were,
indigenous
to
this
earth,
no
men
capable
of
making
such
an
iron
instrument,
it
may
have
been
left
behind
by
visitors
from
other
worlds.
In
an
extraordinary
approximation
to
fairness
and
justice,
which
is
permitted
to
us,
because
we
are
quite
as
desirous
to
make
acceptable
that
nothing
can
be
proved
as
we
are
to
sustain
our
own
expressions,
we
note:
That
in
Notes
and
Queries,
11-1-408,
there
is
an
account
of
an
ancient
copper
seal,
about
the
size
of
a
penny,
found
in
chalk,
at
a
depth
of
from
five
to
six
feet,
near
Bredenstone,
England.
The
design
upon
it
is
said
to
be
of
a
monk
kneeling
before
a
virgin
and
child:
a
legend
upon
the
margin
is
said
to
be:
"St.
Jordanis
Monachi
Spaldingie."
I
don't
know
about
that.
It
looks
very
desirable--undesirable
to
us.
There's
a
wretch
of
an
ultra-frowsy
thing
in
the
Scientific
American,
7-298,
which
we
condemn
ourselves,
if
somewhere,
because
of
the
oneness
of
allness,
the
damned
must
also
be
the
damning.
It's
a
newspaper
story:
that
about
the
first
of
June,
1851,
a
powerful
blast,
near
Dorchester,
Mass.,
cast
out
from
a
bed
of
solid
rock
a
bell-shaped
vessel
of
an
unknown
metal:
floral
designs
inlaid
with
silver;
"art
of
some
cunning
workman."
The
opinion
of
the
Editor
of
the
Scientific
American
is
that
the
thing
had
been
made
by
Tubal
Cain,
who
was
the
first
inhabitant
of
Dorchester.
Though
I
fear
that
this
is
a
little
arbitrary,
I
am
not
disposed
to
fly
rabidly
at
every
scientific
opinion.
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