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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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"IYNKICIDU,"
according
to
Mr.
Jones.
He
thinks
that
this
is
a
name,
and
that
there
is
an
aboriginal
ring
to
it,
though
I
should
say,
myself,
that
he
was
thinking
of
the
far-distant
Incas:
that
the
Spanish
donor
cut
on
the
cross
the
name
of
an
Indian
to
whom
it
was
presented.
But
we
look
at
the
inscription
ourselves
and
see
that
the
letters
said
to
be
"C"
and
"D"
are
turned
the
wrong
way,
and
that
the
letter
said
to
be
"K"
is
not
only
turned
the
wrong
way,
but
is
upside
down.
It
is
difficult
to
accept
that
the
remarkable,
the
very
extensive,
copper
mines
in
the
region
of
Lake
Superior
were
ever
the
works
of
American
aborigines.
Despite
the
astonishing
extent
of
these
mines,
nothing
has
ever
been
found
to
indicate
that
the
region
was
ever
inhabited
by
permanent
dwellers--
"...
not
a
vestige
of
a
dwelling,
a
skeleton,
or
a
bone
has
been
found."
The
Indians
have
no
traditions
relating
to
the
mines.
(Amer.
Antiquarian,
25-258.)
I
think
that
we've
had
visitors:
that
they
have
come
here
for
copper,
for
instance.
As
to
other
relics
of
them--but
we
now
come
upon
frequency
of
a
merger
that
has
not
so
often
appeared
before:
Fraudulency.
Hair
called
real
hair--then
there
are
wigs.
Teeth
called
real
teeth--then
there
are
false
teeth.
Official
money--counterfeit
money.
It's
the
bane
of
psychic
research.
If
there
be
psychic
phenomena,
there
must
be
fraudulent
psychic
phenomena.
So
desperate
is
the
situation
here
that
Carrington
argues
that,
even
if
Palladino
be
caught
cheating,
that
is
not
to
say
that
all
her
phenomena
are
fraudulent.
My
own
version
is:
that
nothing
indicates
anything,
in
a
positive
sense,
because,
in
a
positive
sense,
there
is
nothing
to
be
indicated.
Everything
that
is
called
true
must
merge
away
indistinguishably
into
something
called
false.
Both
are
expressions
of
the
same
underlying
quasiness,
and
are
continuous.
Fraudulent
antiquarian
relics
are
very
common,
but
they
are
not
more
common
than
are
fraudulent
paintings.
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