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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Now
all
the
other
savages
would
know
of
a
few
vessels
sailing
in
their
regular
routes,
passing
this
island
in
regularized
periodicities.
The
tendency
in
these
minds
would
be
expression
of
the
universal
tendency
toward
positivism--or
Completeness--or
conviction
that
these
few
regularized
vessels
constituted
all.
Now
I
think
of
some
especial
savage
who
suspects
otherwise--because
he's
very
backward
and
unimaginative
and
insensible
to
the
beautiful
ideals
of
the
others:
not
piously
occupied,
like
the
others,
in
bowing
before
impressive-looking
sticks
of
wood;
dishonestly
taking
time
for
his
speculations,
while
the
others
are
patriotically
witch-finding.
So
the
other
higher
and
nobler
savages
know
about
the
few
regularized
vessels:
know
when
to
expect
them;
have
their
periodicities
all
worked
out;
just
about
when
vessels
will
pass,
or
eclipse
each
other--explaining
that
all
vagaries
were
due
to
atmospheric
conditions.
They'd
come
out
strong
in
explaining.
You
can't
read
a
book
upon
savages
without
noting
what
resolute
explainers
they
are.
They'd
say
that
all
this
mechanism
was
founded
upon
the
mutual
attraction
of
the
vessels--deduced
from
the
fall
of
a
monkey
from
a
palm
tree--or,
if
not
that,
that
devils
were
pushing
the
vessels--something
of
the
kind.
Storms.
Debris,
not
from
these
vessels,
cast
up
by
the
waves.
Disregarded.
How
can
one
think
of
something
and
something
else,
too?
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