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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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The
irresistibleness
of
things
that
neither
threaten
nor
jeer
nor
defy,
but
arrange
themselves
in
mass-formations
that
pass
and
pass
and
keep
on
passing.
So,
by
the
damned,
I
mean
the
excluded.
But
by
the
excluded
I
mean
that
which
will
some
day
be
the
excluding.
Or
everything
that
is,
won't
be.
And
everything
that
isn't,
will
be--
But,
of
course,
will
be
that
which
won't
be--
It
is
our
expression
that
the
flux
between
that
which
isn't
and
that
which
won't
be,
or
the
state
that
is
commonly
and
absurdly
called
"existence,"
is
a
rhythm
of
heavens
and
hells:
that
the
damned
won't
stay
damned;
that
salvation
only
precedes
perdition.
The
inference
is
that
some
day
our
accursed
tatterdemalions
will
be
sleek
angels.
Then
the
sub-inference
is
that
some
later
day,
back
they'll
go
whence
they
came.
It
is
our
expression
that
nothing
can
attempt
to
be,
except
by
attempting
to
exclude
something
else:
that
that
which
is
commonly
called
"being"
is
a
state
that
is
wrought
more
or
less
definitely
proportionately
to
the
appearance
of
positive
difference
between
that
which
is
included
and
that
which
is
excluded.
But
it
is
our
expression
that
there
are
no
positive
differences:
that
all
things
are
like
a
mouse
and
a
bug
in
the
heart
of
a
cheese.
Mouse
and
a
bug:
no
two
things
could
seem
more
unlike.
They're
there
a
week,
or
they
stay
there
a
month:
both
are
then
only
transmutations
of
cheese.
I
think
we're
all
bugs
and
mice,
and
are
only
different
expressions
of
an
all-inclusive
cheese.
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