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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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So
all
concepts
are
little
attempted
positivenesses,
but
soon
have
to
give
in
to
compromise,
modification,
nullification,
merging
away
into
indistinguishability--unless,
here
and
there,
in
the
world's
history,
there
may
have
been
a
super-dogmatist,
who,
for
only
an
infinitesimal
of
time,
has
been
able
to
hold
out
against
heterogeneity
or
modification
or
doubt
or
"listening
to
reason,"
or
loss
of
identity--in
which
case--instant
translation
to
heaven
or
the
Positive
Absolute.
Odd
thing
about
Spencer
is
that
he
never
recognized
that
"homogeneity,"
"integration,"
and
"definiteness"
are
all
words
for
the
same
state,
or
the
state
that
we
call
"positiveness."
What
we
call
his
mistake
is
in
that
he
regarded
"homogeneousness"
as
negative.
I
began
with
a
notion
of
some
one
other
world,
from
which
objects
and
substances
have
fallen
to
this
earth;
which
had,
or
which,
to
less
degree,
has
a
tutelary
interest
in
this
earth;
which
is
now
attempting
to
communicate
with
this
earth--modifying,
because
of
data
which
will
pile
up
later,
into
acceptance
that
some
other
world
is
not
attempting
but
has
been,
for
centuries,
in
communication
with
a
sect,
perhaps,
or
a
secret
society,
or
certain
esoteric
ones
of
this
earth's
inhabitants.
I
lose
a
great
deal
of
hypnotic
power
in
not
being
able
to
concentrate
attention
upon
some
one
other
world.
As
I
have
admitted
before
I'm
intelligent,
as
contrasted
with
the
orthodox.
I
haven't
the
aristocratic
disregard
of
a
New
York
curator
or
an
Eskimo
medicine-man.
I
have
to
dissipate
myself
in
acceptance
of
a
host
of
other
worlds:
size
of
the
moon,
some
of
them:
one
of
them,
at
least--tremendous
thing:
we'll
take
that
up
later.
Vast,
amorphous
aerial
regions,
to
which
such
definite
words
as
"worlds"
and
"planets"
seem
inapplicable.
And
artificial
constructions
that
I
have
called
"super-constructions":
one
of
them
about
the
size
of
Brooklyn,
I
should
say,
offhand.
And
one
or
more
of
them
wheel-shaped
things
a
goodly
number
of
square
miles
in
area.
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