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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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History
is
a
department
of
human
delusion
that
interests
us.
We
are
able
to
give
a
little
advancement
to
history.
In
the
vitrified
forts
of
a
few
parts
of
Europe,
we
find
data
that
the
Humes
and
Gibbons
have
disregarded.
The
vitrified
forts
surrounding
England,
but
not
in
England.
The
vitrified
forts
of
Scotland,
Ireland,
Brittany,
and
Bohemia.
Or
that,
once
upon
a
time,
with
electric
blasts,
Azuria
tried
to
swipe
this
earth
clear
of
the
peoples
who
resisted
her.
The
vast
blue
bulk
of
Azuria
appeared
in
the
sky.
Clouds
turned
green.
The
sun
was
formless
and
purple
in
the
vibrations
of
wrath
that
were
emanating
from
Azuria.
The
whitish,
or
yellowish,
or
brownish
peoples
of
Scotland,
Ireland,
Brittany,
and
Bohemia
fled
to
hilltops
and
built
forts.
In
a
real
existence,
hilltops,
or
easiest
accessibility
to
an
aerial
enemy,
would
be
the
last
choice
in
refuges.
But
here,
in
quasi-existence,
if
we're
accustomed
to
run
to
hilltops,
in
times
of
danger,
we
run
to
them
just
the
same,
even
with
danger
closest
to
hilltops.
Very
common
in
quasi-existence:
attempt
to
escape
by
running
closer
to
the
pursuing.
They
built
forts,
or
already
had
forts,
on
hilltops.
Something
poured
electricity
upon
them.
The
stones
of
these
forts
exist
to
this
day,
vitrified,
or
melted
and
turned
to
glass.
The
archaeologists
have
jumped
from
one
conclusion
to
another,
like
the
"rapid
chamois"
we
read
of
a
while
ago,
to
account
for
vitrified
forts,
always
restricted
by
the
commandment
that
unless
their
conclusions
conformed
to
such
tenets
as
Exclusionism,
of
the
System,
they
would
be
excommunicated.
So
archaeologists,
in
their
medieval
dread
of
excommunication,
have
tried
to
explain
vitrified
forts
in
terms
of
terrestrial
experience.
We
find
in
their
insufficiencies
the
same
old
assimilating
of
all
that
could
be
assimilated,
and
disregard
for
the
unassimilable,
conventionalizing
into
the
explanation
that
vitrified
forts
were
made
by
prehistoric
peoples
who
built
vast
fires--often
remote
from
wood-supply--to
melt
externally,
and
to
cement
together,
the
stones
of
their
constructions.
But
negativeness
always:
so
within
itself
a
science
can
never
be
homogeneous
or
unified
or
harmonious.
So
Miss
Russel,
in
the
Journal
of
the
B.A.A.,
has
pointed
out
that
it
is
seldom
that
single
stones,
to
say
nothing
of
long
walls,
of
large
houses
that
are
burned
to
the
ground,
are
vitrified.
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