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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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"Other
missiles"
make
a
complication
here.
But
if
the
expression
means
tin
cans
and
old
shoes,
and
if
we
accept
that
the
direction
could
not
be
traced
because
it
never
occurred
to
anyone
to
look
upward--why,
we've
lost
a
good
deal
of
our
provincialism
by
this
time.
London
Times,
Sept.
16,
1841:
That,
in
the
home
of
Mrs.
Charton,
at
Sutton
Courthouse,
Sutton
Lane,
Chiswick,
windows
had
been
broken
"by
some
unseen
agent."
Every
attempt
to
detect
the
perpetrator
failed.
The
mansion
was
detached
and
surrounded
by
high
walls.
No
other
building
was
near
it.
The
police
were
called.
Two
constables,
assisted
by
members
of
the
household,
guarded
the
house,
but
the
windows
continued
to
be
broken
"both
in
front
and
behind
the
house."
Or
the
floating
islands
that
are
often
stationary
in
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea;
and
atmospheric
disturbances
that
sometimes
affect
them,
and
bring
things
down
within
small
areas,
upon
this
earth,
from
temporarily
stationary
sources.
Super-Sargasso
Sea
and
the
beaches
of
its
floating
islands
from
which
I
think,
or
at
least
accept,
pebbles
have
fallen:
Wolverhampton,
England,
June,
1860--violent
storm--fall
of
so
many
little
black
pebbles
that
they
were
cleared
away
by
shoveling
(La
Sci.
Pour
Tous,
5-264);
great
number
of
small
black
stones
that
fell
at
Birmingham,
England,
August,
1858--violent
storm--said
to
be
similar
to
some
basalt
a
few
leagues
from
Birmingham
(Rept.
Brit.
Assoc.,
1864-37);
pebbles
described
as
"common
water-worn
pebbles"
that
fell
at
Palestine,
Texas,
July
6,
1888--"of
a
formation
not
found
near
Palestine"
(W.H.
Perry,
Sergeant,
Signal
Corps,
Monthly
Weather
Review,
July,
1888);
round,
smooth
pebbles
at
Kandahor,
1834
(Am.
J.
Sci.,
1-26-161);
"a
number
of
stones
of
peculiar
formation
and
shapes,
unknown
in
this
neighborhood,
fell
in
a
tornado
at
Hillsboro,
Ill.,
May
18,
1883."
(Monthly
Weather
Review,
May,
1883.)
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