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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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But
some
are
Roman
crosses,
some
St.
Andrew's,
some
Maltese.
Conceivably
there
might
be
a
mineral
that
would
have
a
diversity
of
geometric
forms,
at
the
same
time
restricted
to
some
expression
of
the
cross,
because
snowflakes,
for
instance,
have
diversity
but
restriction
to
the
hexagon,
but
the
guilty
geologists,
cold-blooded
as
astronomers
and
chemists
and
all
the
other
deep-sea
fishes--though
less
profoundly
of
the
pseudo-saved
than
the
wretched
anthropologists--disregarded
the
very
datum--that
it
was
wise
to
disregard:
That
the
"fairy
crosses"
are
not
all
made
of
the
same
material.
It's
the
same
old
disregard,
or
it's
the
same
old
psycho-tropism,
or
process
of
assimilation.
Crystals
are
geometric
forms.
Crystals
are
included
in
the
System.
So
then
"fairy
crosses"
are
crystals.
But
that
different
minerals
should,
in
a
few
different
regions,
be
inspired
to
turn
into
different
forms
of
the
cross--is
the
kind
of
resistance
that
we
call
less
nearly
real
than
our
own
acceptances.
We
now
come
to
some
"cursed"
little
things
that
are
of
the
"lost,"
but
for
the
"salvation"
of
which
scientific
missionaries
have
done
their
damnedest.
"Pigmy
flints."
They
can't
very
well
be
denied.
They're
lost
and
well
known.
"Pigmy
flints"
are
tiny,
prehistoric
implements.
Some
of
them
are
a
quarter
of
an
inch
in
size.
England,
India,
France,
South
Africa--they've
been
found
in
many
parts
of
the
world--whether
showered
there
or
not.
They
belong
high
up
in
the
froth
of
the
accursed:
they
are
not
denied,
and
they
have
not
been
disregarded;
there
is
an
abundant
literature
upon
this
subject.
One
attempt
to
rationalize
them,
or
assimilate
them,
or
take
them
into
the
scientific
fold,
has
been
the
notion
that
they
were
toys
of
prehistoric
children.
It
sounds
reasonable.
But,
of
course,
by
the
reasonable
we
mean
that
for
which
the
equally
reasonable,
but
opposing,
has
not
been
found
out--except
that
we
modify
that
by
saying
that,
though
nothing's
finally
reasonable,
some
phenomena
have
higher
approximations
to
Reasonableness
than
have
others.
Against
the
notion
of
toys,
the
higher
approximation
is
that
where
"pygmy
flints"
are
found,
all
flints
are
pygmies--at
least
so
in
India,
where,
when
larger
implements
have
been
found
in
the
same
place,
there
are
separations
by
strata.
(Wilson.)
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