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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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But
data
we
shall
have
of
round
worlds
and
spindle-shaped
worlds,
and
worlds
shaped
like
a
wheel;
worlds
like
titanic
pruning
hooks;
worlds
linked
together
by
streaming
filaments;
solitary
worlds,
and
worlds
in
hordes:
tremendous
worlds
and
tiny
worlds:
some
of
them
made
of
material
like
the
material
of
this
earth;
and
worlds
that
are
geometric
super-constructions
made
of
iron
and
steel--
Or
not
only
fall
from
the
sky
of
ashes
and
cinders
and
coke
and
charcoal
and
oily
substances
that
suggest
fuel--but
the
masses
of
iron
that
have
fallen
upon
this
earth.
Wrecks
and
flotsam
and
fragments
of
vast
iron
constructions--
Or
steel.
Sooner
or
later
we
shall
have
to
take
up
an
expression
that
fragments
of
steel
have
fallen
from
the
sky.
If
fragments
not
of
iron,
but
of
steel
have
fallen
upon
this
earth--
But
what
would
a
deep-sea
fish
learn
even
if
a
steel
plate
of
a
wrecked
vessel
above
him
should
drop
and
bump
him
on
the
nose?
Our
submergence
in
a
sea
of
conventionality
of
almost
impenetrable
density.
Sometimes
I'm
a
savage
who
has
found
something
on
the
beach
of
his
island.
Sometimes
I'm
a
deep-sea
fish
with
a
sore
nose.
The
greatest
of
mysteries:
Why
don't
they
ever
come
here,
or
send
here,
openly?
Of
course
there's
nothing
to
that
mystery
if
we
don't
take
so
seriously
the
notion--that
we
must
be
interesting.
It's
probably
for
moral
reasons
that
they
stay
away--but
even
so,
there
must
be
some
degraded
ones
among
them.
Or
physical
reasons:
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