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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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That,
though
the
local
might
be
universalized,
it
is
not
conceivable
that
the
universal
can
be
localized:
but
that
high
approximations
there
may
be,
and
that
these
approximate
successes
may
be
translated
out
of
Intermediateness
into
Realness--quite
as,
in
a
relative
sense,
the
industrial
world
recruits
itself
by
translating
out
of
unrealness,
or
out
of
the
seemingly
less
real
imaginings
of
inventors,
machines
which
seem,
when
set
up
in
factories,
to
have
more
of
Realness
than
they
had
when
only
imagined.
That
all
progress,
if
all
progress
is
toward
stability,
organization,
harmony,
consistency,
or
positiveness,
is
the
attempt
to
become
real.
So,
then,
in
general
metaphysical
terms,
our
expression
is
that,
like
a
purgatory,
all
that
is
commonly
called
"existence,"
which
we
call
Intermediateness,
is
quasi-existence,
neither
real
nor
unreal,
but
expression
of
attempt
to
become
real,
or
to
generate
for
or
recruit
a
real
existence.
Our
acceptance
is
that
Science,
though
usually
thought
of
so
specifically,
or
in
its
own
local
terms,
usually
supposed
to
be
a
prying
into
old
bones,
bugs,
unsavory
messes,
is
an
expression
of
this
one
spirit
animating
all
Intermediateness:
that,
if
Science
could
absolutely
exclude
all
data
but
its
own
present
data,
or
that
which
is
assimilable
with
the
present
quasi-organization,
it
would
be
a
real
system,
with
positively
definite
outlines--it
would
be
real.
Its
seeming
approximation
to
consistency,
stability,
system--positiveness
or
realness--is
sustained
by
damning
the
irreconcilable
or
the
unassimilable--
All
would
be
well.
All
would
be
heavenly--
If
the
damned
would
only
stay
damned.
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