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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
195
There
are
gas
lights
and
kerosene
lamps
and
electric
lights
in
the
neighborhood:
matches
flaring,
fires
in
stoves,
bonfires,
house
afire
somewhere;
lights
of
automobiles,
illuminated
signs--
The
watchman
and
his
one
little
system.
Ethics.
And
some
young
ladies
and
the
dear
old
professor
of
a
very
"select"
seminary.
Drugs
and
divorce
and
rape:
venereal
diseases,
drunkenness,
murder--
Excluded.
The
prim
and
the
precise,
or
the
exact,
the
homogeneous,
the
single,
the
puritanic,
the
mathematic,
the
pure,
the
perfect.
We
can
have
illusion
of
this
state--but
only
by
disregarding
its
infinite
denials.
It's
a
drop
of
milk
afloat
in
acid
that's
eating
it.
The
positive
swamped
by
the
negative.
So
it
is
in
intermediateness,
where
only
to
"be"
positive
is
to
generate
corresponding
and,
perhaps,
equal
negativeness.
In
our
acceptance,
it
is,
in
quasi-existence,
premonitory,
or
pre-natal,
or
pre-awakening
consciousness
of
a
real
existence.
But
this
consciousness
of
realness
is
the
greatest
resistance
to
efforts
to
realize
or
to
become
real--because
it
is
feeling
that
realness
has
been
attained.
Our
antagonism
is
not
to
Science,
but
to
the
attitude
of
the
sciences
that
they
have
finally
realized;
or
to
belief,
instead
of
acceptance;
to
the
insufficiency,
which,
as
we
have
seen
over
and
over,
amounts
to
paltriness
and
puerility
of
scientific
dogmas
and
standards.
Or,
if
several
persons
start
out
to
Chicago,
and
get
to
Buffalo,
and
one
be
under
the
delusion
that
Buffalo
is
Chicago,
that
one
will
be
a
resistance
to
the
progress
of
the
others.
So
astronomy
and
its
seemingly
exact,
little
system--
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