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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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And
that
above
it
are
regions
of
suspension
that
revolve
with
it:
from
which
objects
fall,
by
disturbances
of
various
kinds,
and
then,
later,
fall
again,
in
the
same
place:
Monthly
Weather
Review,
May,
1884-134:
Report
from
the
Signal
Service
observer,
at
Bismarck,
Dakota:
That,
at
9
o'clock,
in
the
evening
of
May
22,
1884,
sharp
sounds
were
heard
throughout
the
city,
caused
by
a
fall
of
flinty
stones
striking
against
windows.
Fifteen
hours
later
another
fall
of
flinty
stones
occurred
at
Bismarck.
There
is
no
report
of
stones
having
fallen
anywhere
else.
This
is
a
thing
of
the
ultra-damned.
All
Editors
of
scientific
publications
read
the
Monthly
Weather
Review
and
frequently
copy
from
it.
The
noise
made
by
the
stones
of
Bismarck,
rattling
against
those
windows,
may
be
in
a
language
that
aviators
will
some
day
interpret:
but
it
was
a
noise
entirely
surrounded
by
silences.
Of
this
ultra-damned
thing,
there
is
no
mention,
findable
by
me,
in
any
other
publication.
The
size
of
some
hailstones
has
worried
many
meteorologists--but
not
text-book
meteorologists.
I
know
of
no
more
serene
occupation
than
that
of
writing
text-books--though
writing
for
the
War
Cry,
of
the
Salvation
Army,
may
be
equally
unadventurous.
In
the
drowsy
tranquillity
of
a
text-book,
we
easily
and
unintelligently
read
of
dust
particles
around
which
icy
rain
forms,
hailstones,
in
their
fall,
then
increasing
by
accretion--but
in
the
meteorological
journals,
we
read
often
of
air-spaces
nucleating
hailstones--
But
it's
the
size
of
the
things.
Dip
a
marble
in
icy
water.
Dip
and
dip
and
dip
it.
If
you're
a
resolute
dipper,
you
will,
after
a
while,
have
an
object
the
size
of
a
baseball--but
I
think
a
thing
could
fall
from
the
moon
in
that
length
of
time.
Also
the
strata
of
them.
The
Maryland
hailstones
are
unusual,
but
a
dozen
strata
have
often
been
counted.
Ferrel
gives
an
instance
of
thirteen
strata.
Such
considerations
led
Prof.
Schwedoff
to
argue
that
some
hailstones
are
not,
and
cannot,
be
generated
in
this
earth's
atmosphere--that
they
come
from
somewhere
else.
Now,
in
a
relative
existence,
nothing
can
of
itself
be
either
attractive
or
repulsive:
its
effects
are
functions
of
its
associations
or
implications.
Many
of
our
data
have
been
taken
from
very
conservative
scientific
sources:
it
was
not
until
their
discordant
implications,
or
irreconcilabilities
with
the
System,
were
perceived,
that
excommunication
was
pronounced
against
them.
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