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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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But
for
seven
years
the
atmospheric
phenomena
continued--
Except
that,
in
the
seven,
there
was
a
lapse
of
several
years--and
where
was
the
volcanic
dust
all
that
time?
You'd
think
that
such
a
question
as
that
would
make
trouble?
Then
you
haven't
studied
hypnosis.
You
have
never
tried
to
demonstrate
to
a
hypnotic
that
a
table
is
not
a
hippopotamus.
According
to
our
general
acceptance,
it
would
be
impossible
to
demonstrate
such
a
thing.
Point
out
a
hundred
reasons
for
saying
that
a
hippopotamus
is
not
a
table:
you'll
have
to
end
up
agreeing
that
neither
is
a
table
a
table--it
only
seems
to
be
a
table.
Well,
that's
what
the
hippopotamus
seems
to
be.
So
how
can
you
prove
that
something
is
not
something
else,
when
neither
is
something
else
some
other
thing?
There's
nothing
to
prove.
This
is
one
of
the
profundities
that
we
advertised
in
advance.
You
can
oppose
an
absurdity
only
with
some
other
absurdity.
But
Science
is
established
preposterousness.
We
divide
all
intellection:
the
obviously
preposterousness
and
the
established.
But
Krakatoa:
that's
the
explanation
that
the
scientists
gave.
I
don't
know
what
whopper
the
medicine
men
told.
We
see,
from
the
start,
the
very
strong
inclination
of
science
to
deny,
as
much
as
it
can,
external
relations
of
this
earth.
This
book
is
an
assemblage
of
data
of
external
relations
of
this
earth.
We
take
the
position
that
our
data
have
been
damned,
upon
no
consideration
for
individual
merits
or
demerits,
but
in
conformity
with
a
general
attempt
to
hold
out
for
isolation
of
this
earth.
This
is
attempted
positiveness.
We
take
the
position
that
science
can
no
more
succeed
than,
in
a
similar
endeavor,
could
the
Chinese,
or
than
could
the
United
States.
So
then,
with
only
pseudo-consideration
of
the
phenomena
of
1883,
or
as
an
expression
of
positivism
in
its
aspect
of
isolation,
or
unrelatedness,
scientists
have
perpetrated
such
an
enormity
as
suspension
of
volcanic
dust
seven
years
in
the
air--disregarding
the
lapse
of
several
years--rather
than
to
admit
the
arrival
of
dust
from
somewhere
beyond
this
earth.
Not
that
scientists
themselves
have
ever
achieved
positiveness,
in
its
aspect
of
unitedness,
among
themselves--because
Nordenskiold,
before
1883,
wrote
a
great
deal
upon
his
theory
of
cosmic
dust,
and
Prof.
Cleveland
Abbe
contended
against
the
Krakatoan
explanation--but
that
this
is
the
orthodoxy
of
the
main
body
of
scientists.
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