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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
188
Translation
by
M.
Jombard:
"Thy
orders
are
laws:
thou
shinest
in
impetuous
elan
and
rapid
chamois."
M.
Maurice
Schwab:
"The
chief
of
Emigration
who
reached
these
places
(or
this
island)
has
fixed
these
characters
forever."
M.
Oppert:
"The
grave
of
one
who
was
assassinated
here.
May
God,
to
revenge
him,
strike
his
murderer,
cutting
off
the
hand
of
his
existence."
I
like
the
first
one
best.
I
have
such
a
vivid
impression
from
it
of
someone
polishing
up
brass
or
something,
and
in
an
awful
hurry.
Of
course
the
third
is
more
dramatic--still
they're
all
very
good.
They
are
perturbations
of
one
another,
I
suppose.
In
Tract
44,
Col.
Whittelsey
returns
to
the
subject.
He
gives
the
conclusion
of
Major
De
Helward,
at
the
Congress
of
Luxembourg,
1877:
"If
Prof.
Read
and
myself
are
right
in
the
conclusion
that
the
figures
are
neither
of
the
Runic,
Phoenician,
Canaanite,
Hebrew,
Lybian,
Celtic,
or
any
other
alphabet-language,
its
importance
has
been
greatly
over-rated."
Obvious
to
a
child;
obvious
to
any
mentality
not
helplessly
subjected
to
a
system:
That
just
therein
lies
the
importance
of
this
object.
It
is
said
that
an
ideal
of
science
is
to
find
out
the
new--but,
unless
a
thing
be
of
the
old,
it
is
"unimportant."
"It
is
not
worth
while."
(Hovey.)
Then
the
inscribed
ax,
or
wedge,
which,
according
to
Dr.
John
C.
Evans,
in
a
communication
to
the
American
Ethnological
Society,
was
plowed
up,
near
Pemberton,
N.J.,
1859.
The
characters
upon
this
ax,
or
wedge,
are
strikingly
similar
to
the
characters
on
the
Grave
Creek
stone.
Also,
with
a
little
disregard
here
and
a
little
more
there,
they
look
like
tracks
in
the
snow
by
someone
who's
been
out
celebrating,
or
like
your
handwriting,
or
mine,
when
we
think
there's
a
certain
distinction
in
illegibility.
Method
of
disregard:
anything's
anything.
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