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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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They
must
have
been
missionaries.
Only
to
be
is
motion
to
convert
or
assimilate
something
else.
The
idea
now
is
that
tiny
creatures
coming
here
from
their
own
little
world,
which
may
be
Eros,
though
I
call
it
Elvera,
would
flit
from
the
exquisite
to
the
enormous--gulp
of
a
fair-sized
terrestrial
animal--half
a
dozen
of
them
gone
and
soon
digested.
One
falls
into
a
brook--torn
away
in
a
mighty
torrent--
Or
never
anything
but
conventional,
we
adopt
from
Darwin:
"The
geological
records
are
incomplete."
Their
flints
would
survive,
but,
as
to
their
fragile
bodies--one
might
as
well
search
for
prehistoric
frost-traceries.
A
little
whirlwind--Elverean
carried
away
a
hundred
yards--body
never
found
by
his
companions.
They'd
mourn
for
the
departed.
Conventional
emotion
to
have:
they'd
mourn.
There'd
have
to
be
a
funeral:
there's
no
getting
away
from
funerals.
So
I
adopt
an
explanation
that
I
take
from
the
anthropologists:
burial
in
effigy.
Perhaps
the
Elvereans
would
not
come
to
this
earth
again
until
many
years
later--another
distressing
occurrence--one
little
mausoleum
for
all
burials
in
effigy.
London
Times,
July
20,
1836:
That,
early
in
July,
1836,
some
boys
were
searching
for
rabbits'
burrows
in
the
rocky
formation,
near
Edinburgh,
known
as
Arthur's
Seat.
In
the
side
of
a
cliff,
they
came
upon
some
thin
sheets
of
slate,
which
they
pulled
out.
Little
cave.
Seventeen
tiny
coffins.
Three
or
four
inches
long.
In
the
coffins
were
miniature
wooden
figures.
They
were
dressed
differently
both
in
style
and
material.
There
were
two
tiers
of
eight
coffins
each,
and
a
third
tier
begun,
with
one
coffin.
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