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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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I
think
that
earlier
in
this
book,
before
we
liberalized
into
embracing
everything
that
comes
along,
your
indignation,
or
indigestion
would
have
expressed
in
the
notion
that,
if
this
were
so,
astronomers
would
have
seen
these
other
worlds
and
regions
and
vast
geometric
constructions.
You'd
have
had
that
notion:
you'd
have
stopped
there.
But
the
attempt
to
stop
is
saying
"enough"
to
the
insatiable.
In
cosmic
punctuation
there
are
no
periods:
illusion
of
periods
is
incomplete
view
of
colons
and
semi-colons.
We
can't
stop
with
the
notion
that
if
there
were
such
phenomena,
astronomers
would
have
seen
them.
Because
of
our
experience
with
suppression
and
disregard,
we
suspect,
before
we
go
into
the
subject
at
all,
that
astronomers
have
seen
them;
that
navigators
and
meteorologists
have
seen
them;
that
individual
scientists
and
other
trained
observers
have
seen
them
many
times--
That
it
is
the
System
that
has
excluded
data
of
them.
As
to
the
Law
of
Gravitation,
and
astronomers'
formulas,
remember
that
these
formulas
worked
out
in
the
time
of
Laplace
as
well
as
they
do
now.
But
there
are
hundreds
of
planetary
bodies
now
known
that
were
then
not
known.
So
a
few
hundred
worlds
more
of
ours
won't
make
any
difference.
Laplace
knew
of
about
only
thirty
bodies
in
this
solar
system:
about
six
hundred
are
recognized
now--
What
are
the
discoveries
of
geology
and
biology
to
a
theologian?
His
formulas
still
work
out
as
well
as
they
ever
did.
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