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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Would
it
be
wise
to
establish
diplomatic
relation
with
the
hen
that
now
functions,
satisfied
with
mere
sense
of
achievement
by
way
of
compensation?
I
think
we're
property.
I
should
say
we
belong
to
something:
That
once
upon
a
time,
this
earth
was
No-man's
Land,
that
other
worlds
explored
and
colonized
here,
and
fought
among
themselves
for
possession,
but
that
now
it's
owned
by
something:
That
something
owns
this
earth--all
others
warned
off.
Nothing
in
our
own
times--perhaps--because
I
am
thinking
of
certain
notes
I
have--has
ever
appeared
upon
this
earth,
from
somewhere
else,
so
openly
as
Columbus
landed
upon
San
Salvador,
or
as
Hudson
sailed
up
his
river.
But
as
to
surreptitious
visits
to
this
earth,
in
recent
times,
or
as
to
emissaries,
perhaps,
from
other
worlds,
or
voyagers
who
have
shown
every
indication
of
intent
to
evade
and
avoid,
we
shall
have
data
as
convincing
as
our
data
of
oil
or
coal-burning
aerial
super-constructions.
But,
in
this
vast
subject,
I
shall
have
to
do
considerable
neglecting
or
disregarding,
myself.
I
don't
see
how
I
can,
in
this
book,
take
up
at
all
the
subject
of
possible
use
of
humanity
to
some
other
mode
of
existence,
or
the
flattering
notion
that
we
can
possibly
be
worth
something.
Pigs,
geese,
and
cattle.
First
find
out
that
they
are
owned.
Then
find
out
the
whyness
of
it.
I
suspect
that,
after
all,
we're
useful--that
among
contesting
claimants,
adjustment
has
occurred,
or
that
something
now
has
a
legal
right
to
us,
by
force,
or
by
having
paid
out
analogues
of
beads
for
us
to
former,
more
primitive,
owners
of
us--all
others
warned
off--that
all
this
has
been
known,
perhaps
for
ages,
to
certain
ones
upon
this
earth,
a
cult
or
order,
members
of
which
function
like
bellwethers
to
the
rest
of
us,
or
as
superior
slaves
or
overseers,
directing
us
in
accordance
with
instructions
received--from
Somewhere
else--in
our
mysterious
usefulness.
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