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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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It
was
about
as
terrifying
as
the
scratch
of
a
match
on
the
seat
of
some
breeches
half
a
mile
away.
It
was
not
on
time.
Though
I
have
heard
that
a
faint
nebulosity,
which
I
did
not
see,
myself,
though
I
looked
when
I
was
told
to
look,
was
seen
in
the
sky,
it
appeared
several
days
after
the
time
predicted.
A
hypnotized
host
of
imbeciles
of
us:
told
to
look
up
at
the
sky:
we
did--like
a
lot
of
pointers
hypnotized
by
a
partridge.
The
effect:
Almost
everybody
now
swears
that
he
saw
Halley's
comet,
and
that
it
was
a
glorious
spectacle.
An
interesting
circumstance
here
is
that
seemingly
we
are
trying
to
discredit
astronomers
because
astronomers
oppose
us--that's
not
my
impression.
We
shall
be
in
the
Brahmin
caste
of
the
hell
of
the
Baptists.
Almost
all
our
data,
in
some
regiments
of
this
procession,
are
observations
by
astronomers,
few
of
them
mere
amateur
astronomers.
It
is
the
System
that
opposes
us.
It
is
the
System
that
is
suppressing
astronomers.
I
think
we
pity
them
in
their
captivity.
Ours
is
not
malice--in
a
positive
sense.
It's
chivalry--somewhat.
Unhappy
astronomers
looking
out
from
high
towers
in
which
they
are
imprisoned--we
appear
upon
the
horizon.
But,
as
I
have
said,
our
data
do
not
relate
to
some
especial
other
world.
I
mean
very
much
what
a
savage
upon
an
ocean
island
might
vaguely
think
of
in
his
speculations--not
upon
some
other
land,
but
complexes
of
continents
and
their
phenomena:
cities,
factories
in
cities,
means
of
communication--
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