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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Data
of
more
than
the
thrice-accursed:
Tablets
of
stone,
with
the
ten
commandments
engraved
upon
them,
in
Hebrew,
said
to
have
been
found
in
mounds
in
the
United
States:
Masonic
emblems
said
to
have
been
found
in
mounds
in
the
United
States.
We're
upon
the
borderline
of
our
acceptances,
and
we're
amorphous
in
the
uncertainties
and
mergings
of
our
outline.
Conventionally,
or,
with
no
real
reason
for
so
doing,
we
exclude
these
things,
and
then,
as
grossly
and
arbitrarily
and
irrationally--though
our
attempt
is
always
to
approximate
away
from
these
negative
states--as
ever
a
Kepler,
Newton,
or
Darwin
made
his
selections,
without
which
he
could
not
have
seemed
to
be,
at
all,
because
every
one
of
them
is
now
seen
to
be
an
illusion,
we
accept
that
other
lettered
things
have
been
found
in
mounds
in
the
United
States.
Of
course
we
do
what
we
can
to
make
the
selection
seem
not
gross
and
arbitrary
and
irrational.
Then,
if
we
accept
that
inscribed
things
of
ancient
origin
have
been
found
in
the
United
States;
that
cannot
be
attributed
to
any
race
indigenous
to
the
western
hemisphere;
that
are
not
in
any
language
ever
heard
of
in
the
eastern
hemisphere--there's
nothing
to
it
but
to
turn
non-Euclidian
and
try
to
conceive
of
a
third
"hemisphere,"
or
to
accept
that
there
has
been
intercourse
between
the
western
hemisphere
and
some
other
world.
But
there
is
a
peculiarity
to
these
inscribed
objects.
They
remind
me
of
the
records
left,
by
Sir
John
Franklin,
in
the
Arctic;
but,
also,
of
attempts
made
by
relief
expeditions
to
communicate
with
the
Franklin
expedition.
The
lost
explorers
cached
their
records--or
concealed
them
conspicuously
in
mounds.
The
relief
expeditions
sent
up
balloons,
from
which
messages
were
dropped
broadcast.
Our
data
are
of
things
that
have
been
cached,
and
of
things
that
seem
to
have
been
dropped--
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