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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Altogether,
I
think
that
in
some
of
our
past
expressions,
we
must
have
been
very
efficient,
if
the
experience
of
Mr.
Symons
be
typical,
so
indefinite
are
we
becoming
here.
Just
here
we
are
interested
in
many
things
that
have
been
found,
especially
in
the
United
States,
which
speak
of
a
civilization,
or
of
many
civilizations
not
indigenous
to
this
earth.
One
trouble
is
in
trying
to
decide
whether
they
fell
here
from
the
sky,
or
were
left
behind
by
visitors
from
other
worlds.
We
have
a
notion
that
there
have
been
disasters
aloft,
and
that
coins
have
dropped
here:
that
inhabitants
of
this
earth
found
them
or
saw
them
fall,
and
then
made
coins
imitatively:
it
may
be
that
coins
were
showered
here
by
something
of
a
tutelary
nature
that
undertook
to
advance
us
from
the
stage
of
barter
to
the
use
of
a
medium.
If
coins
should
be
identified
as
Roman
coins,
we've
had
so
much
experience
with
"identifications"
that
we
know
a
phantom
when
we
see
one--but,
even
so,
how
could
Roman
coins
have
got
to
North
America--far
in
the
interior
of
North
America--or
buried
under
the
accumulation
of
centuries
of
soil--unless
they
did
drop
from--wherever
the
first
Romans
came
from?
Ignatius
Donnelly,
in
Atlantis,
gives
a
list
of
objects
that
have
been
found
in
mounds
that
are
supposed
to
antedate
all
European
influence
in
America:
lathe-made
articles,
such
as
traders--from
somewhere--would
supply
to
savages--marks
of
the
lathe
said
to
be
unmistakable.
Said
to
be:
of
course
we
can't
accept
that
anything
is
unmistakable.
In
the
Rept.
Smithson.
Inst.,
1881-619,
there
is
an
account,
by
Charles
C.
Jones,
of
two
silver
crosses
that
were
found
in
Georgia.
They
are
skillfully
made,
highly
ornamented
crosses,
but
are
not
conventional
crucifixes:
all
arms
of
equal
length.
Mr.
Jones
is
a
good
positivist--that
De
Sota
had
halted
at
the
"precise"
spot
where
these
crosses
were
found.
But
the
spirit
of
negativeness
that
lurks
in
all
things
said
to
be
"precise"
shows
itself
in
that
upon
one
of
these
crosses
is
an
inscription
that
has
no
meaning
in
Spanish
or
any
other
known,
terrestrial
language:
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
