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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Pebbles
from
aerial
beaches
and
terrestrial
pebbles
as
products
of
whirlwinds,
so
merge
in
these
instances
that,
though
it's
interesting
to
hear
of
things
of
peculiar
shape
that
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
it
seems
best
to
pay
little
attention
here,
and
to
find
phenomena
of
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea
remote
from
the
merger:
To
this
requirement
we
have
three
adaptations:
Pebbles
that
fell
where
no
whirlwind
to
which
to
attribute
them
could
be
learned
of:
Pebbles
which
fell
in
hail
so
large
that
incredibly
could
that
hail
have
been
formed
in
this
earth's
atmosphere:
Pebbles
which
fell
and
were,
long
afterward,
followed
by
more
pebbles,
as
if
from
some
aerial,
stationary
source,
in
the
same
place.
In
September,
1898,
there
was
a
story
in
a
New
York
newspaper,
of
lightning--or
an
appearance
of
luminosity?--in
Jamaica--something
had
struck
a
tree:
near
the
tree
were
found
some
small
pebbles.
It
was
said
that
the
pebbles
had
fallen
from
the
sky,
with
the
lightning.
But
the
insult
to
orthodoxy
was
that
they
were
not
angular
fragments
such
as
might
have
been
broken
from
a
stony
meteorite:
that
they
were
"water-worn
pebbles."
In
the
geographical
vagueness
of
a
mainland,
the
explanation
"up
from
one
place
and
down
in
another"
is
always
good,
and
is
never
overworked,
until
the
instances
are
massed
as
they
are
in
this
book:
but,
upon
this
occasion,
in
the
relatively
small
area
of
Jamaica,
there
was
no
whirlwind
findable--however
"there
in
the
first
place"
bobs
up.
Monthly
Weather
Review,
August,
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