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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
184
Prof.
Leslie
then
finds,
as
arbitrarily
as
one
might
find
that
some
joker
put
the
Brooklyn
Bridge
where
it
is,
that
"the
piece
was
placed
there
as
a
practical
joke,
though
not
by
its
present
owner;
and
is
a
modern
fabrication,
perhaps
of
the
sixteenth
century,
possibly
Hispano-American
or
French-American
origin."
It's
sheer,
brutal
attempt
to
assimilate
a
thing
that
may
or
may
not
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
with
phenomena
admitted
by
the
anthropologic
system:
or
with
the
early
French
or
Spanish
explorers
of
Illinois.
Though
it
is
ridiculous
in
a
positive
sense
to
give
reasons,
it
is
more
acceptable
to
attempt
reasons
more
nearly
real
than
opposing
reasons.
Of
course,
in
his
favor,
we
note
that
Prof.
Leslie
qualifies
his
notions.
But
his
disregards
are
that
there
is
nothing
either
French
or
Spanish
about
this
coin.
A
legend
upon
it
is
said
to
be
"somewhere
between
Arabic
and
Phoenician,
without
being
either."
Prof.
Winchell
(Sparks
from
a
Geologist's
Hammer,
p.
170)
says
of
the
crude
designs
upon
this
coin,
which
was
in
his
possession--scrawls
of
an
animal
and
of
a
warrior,
or
of
a
cat
and
a
goldfish,
whichever
be
convenient--that
they
had
been
neither
stamped
nor
engraved,
but
"looked
as
if
etched
with
an
acid."
That
is
a
method
unknown
in
numismatics
of
this
earth.
As
to
the
crudity
of
design
upon
this
coin,
and
something
else--that,
though
the
"warrior"
may
be,
by
due
disregards,
either
a
cat
or
a
goldfish,
we
have
to
note
that
his
headdress
is
typical
of
the
American
Indian--could
be
explained,
of
course,
but
for
fear
that
we
might
be
instantly
translated
to
the
Positive
Absolute,
which
may
not
be
absolutely
desirable,
we
prefer
to
have
some
flaws
or
negativeness
in
our
own
expressions.
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