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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Mr.
Holder
says
that
he
recognized
familiar
Mayan
symbols
in
the
inscription.
His
method
was
the
usual
method
by
which
anything
can
be
"identified"
as
anything
else:
that
is
to
pick
out
whatever
is
agreeable
and
disregard
the
rest.
He
says
that
he
has
demonstrated
that
most
of
the
symbols
are
Mayan.
One
of
our
intermediatist
pseudo-principles
is
that
any
way
of
demonstrating
anything
is
just
as
good
a
way
of
demonstrating
anything
else.
By
Mr.
Holder's
method
we
could
demonstrate
that
we're
Mayan--if
that
should
be
a
source
of
pride
to
us.
One
of
the
characters
upon
this
stone
is
a
circle
within
a
circle--similar
character
found
by
Mr.
Holder
is
a
Mayan
manuscript.
There
are
two
6's.
6's
can
be
found
in
Mayan
manuscripts.
A
double
scroll.
There
are
dots
and
there
are
dashes.
Well,
then,
we,
in
turn,
disregard
the
circle
within
a
circle
and
the
double
scroll
and
emphasize
that
6's
occur
in
this
book,
and
that
dots
are
plentiful,
and
would
be
more
plentiful
if
it
were
customary
to
use
the
small
"i"
for
the
first
personal
pronoun--that
when
it
comes
to
dashes--that's
demonstrated:
we're
Mayan.
I
suppose
the
tendency
is
to
feel
that
we're
sneering
at
some
valuable
archaeologic
work,
and
that
Mr.
Holder
did
make
a
veritable
identification.
He
writes:
"I
submitted
the
photographs
to
the
Field
Museum
and
the
Smithsonian
and
one
or
two
others,
and,
to
my
surprise,
the
reply
was
that
they
could
make
nothing
out
of
it."
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