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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Altogether
our
phantom
resistance
is
mere
attribution
to
the
Mormons,
without
the
slightest
attempt
to
find
base
for
the
attribution.
We
think
of
messages
that
were
showered
upon
this
earth,
and
of
messages
that
were
cached
in
mounds
upon
this
earth.
The
similarity
to
the
Franklin
situation
is
striking.
Conceivably
centuries
from
now,
objects
dropped
from
relief-expedition-balloons
may
be
found
in
the
Arctic,
and
conceivably
there
are
still
undiscovered
caches
left
by
Franklin,
in
the
hope
that
relief
expeditions
would
find
them.
It
would
be
as
incongruous
to
attribute
these
things
to
the
Eskimos
as
to
attribute
tablets
and
lettered
stones
to
the
aborigines
of
America.
Some
time
I
shall
take
up
an
expression
that
the
queer-shaped
mounds
upon
this
earth
were
built
by
explorers
from
Somewhere,
unable
to
get
back,
designed
to
attract
attention
from
some
other
world,
and
that
a
vast
sword-shaped
mound
has
been
discovered
upon
the
moon--Just
now
we
think
of
lettered
things
and
their
two
possible
significances.
A
bizarre
little
lost
soul,
rescued
from
one
of
the
morgues
of
the
American
Journal
of
Science:
An
account,
sent
by
a
correspondent,
to
Prof.
Silliman,
of
something
that
was
found
in
a
block
of
marble,
taken
November,
1829,
from
a
quarry,
near
Philadelphia
(Am.
J.
Sci.,
1-19-361).
The
block
was
cut
into
slabs.
By
this
process,
it
is
said,
was
exposed
an
indentation
in
the
stone,
about
one
and
a
half
inches
by
five-eighths
of
an
inch.
A
geometric
indentation:
in
it
were
two
definite-looking
raised
letters,
like
"I
U":
only
difference
is
that
the
corners
of
the
"U"
are
not
rounded,
but
are
right
angles.
We
are
told
that
this
block
of
stone
came
from
a
depth
of
seventy
or
eighty
feet--or
that,
if
acceptable,
this
lettering
was
done
long,
long
ago.
To
some
persons,
not
sated
with
the
commonness
of
the
incredible
that
has
to
be
accepted,
it
may
seem
grotesque
to
think
that
an
indentation
in
sand
could
have
tons
of
other
sand
piled
upon
it
and
hardening
into
stone,
without
being
pressed
out--but
the
famous
Nicaraguan
footprints
were
found
in
a
quarry
under
eleven
strata
of
solid
rock.
There
was
no
discussion
of
this
datum.
We
only
take
it
out
for
an
airing.
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