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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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In
the
first
place
there
are
no
stones
in
the
sky:
Therefore
no
stones
can
fall
from
the
sky.
Or
nothing
more
reasonable
or
scientific
or
logical
than
that
could
be
said
upon
any
subject.
The
only
trouble
is
the
universal
trouble:
that
the
major
premise
is
not
real,
or
is
intermediate
somewhere
between
realness
and
unrealness.
In
1772,
a
committee,
of
whom
Lavoisier
was
a
member,
was
appointed
by
the
French
Academy,
to
investigate
a
report
that
a
stone
had
fallen
from
the
sky
at
Luce,
France.
Of
all
attempts
at
positiveness,
in
its
aspect
of
isolation,
I
don't
know
of
anything
that
has
been
fought
harder
for
than
the
notion
of
this
earth's
unrelatedness.
Lavoisier
analyzed
the
stone
of
Luce.
The
exclusionists'
explanation
at
that
time
was
that
stones
do
not
fall
from
the
sky:
that
luminous
objects
may
seem
to
fall,
and
that
hot
stones
may
be
picked
up
where
a
luminous
object
seemingly
had
landed--only
lightning
striking
a
stone,
heating,
even
melting
it.
The
stone
of
Luce
showed
signs
of
fusion.
Lavoisier's
analysis
"absolutely
proved"
that
this
stone
had
not
fallen:
that
it
had
been
struck
by
lightning.
So,
authoritatively,
falling
stones
were
damned.
The
stock
means
of
exclusion
remained
the
explanation
of
lightning
that
was
seen
to
strike
something--that
had
been
upon
the
ground
in
the
first
place.
But
positiveness
and
the
fate
of
every
positive
statement.
It
is
not
customary
to
think
of
damned
stones
raising
an
outcry
against
a
sentence
of
exclusion,
but,
subjectively,
aerolites
did--or
data
of
them
bombarded
the
walls
raised
against
them--
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