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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
19
My
own
chief
reason
for
indignation
here:
That
this
preposterous
explanation
interferes
with
some
of
my
own
enormities.
It
would
cost
me
too
much
explaining,
if
I
should
have
to
admit
that
this
earth's
atmosphere
has
such
sustaining
power.
Later,
we
shall
have
data
of
things
that
have
gone
up
in
the
air
and
that
have
stayed
up--somewhere--weeks--months--but
not
by
the
sustaining
power
of
this
earth's
atmosphere.
For
instance,
the
turtle
of
Vicksburg.
It
seems
to
me
that
it
would
be
ridiculous
to
think
of
a
good-sized
turtle
hanging,
for
three
or
four
months,
upheld
only
by
the
air,
over
the
town
of
Vicksburg.
When
it
comes
to
the
horse
and
the
barn--I
think
that
they'll
be
classics
some
day,
but
I
can
never
accept
that
a
horse
and
a
barn
could
float
several
months
in
this
earth's
atmosphere.
The
orthodox
explanation:
See
the
Report
of
the
Krakatoa
Committee
of
the
Royal
Society.
It
comes
out
absolutely
for
the
orthodox
explanation--absolutely
and
beautifully,
also
expensively.
There
are
492
pages
in
the
"Report,"
and
40
plates,
some
of
them
marvelously
colored.
It
was
issued
after
an
investigation
that
took
five
years.
You
couldn't
think
of
anything
done
more
efficiently,
artistically,
authoritatively.
The
mathematical
parts
are
especially
impressive:
distribution
of
the
dust
of
Krakatoa;
velocity
of
translation
and
rates
of
subsidence;
altitudes
and
persistences--
Annual
Register,
1883-105:
That
the
atmospheric
effects
that
have
been
attributed
to
Krakatoa
were
seen
in
Trinidad
before
the
eruption
occurred:
Knowledge,
5-418:
That
they
were
seen
in
Natal,
South
Africa,
six
months
before
the
eruption.
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