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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Prof.
Schwedoff's
paper
was
read
before
the
British
Association
(Rept.
of
1882,
p.
453).
The
implication,
and
the
repulsiveness
of
the
implication
to
the
snug
and
tight
little
exclusionists
of
1882--though
we
hold
out
that
they
were
functioning
well
and
ably
relatively
to
1882--
That
there
is
water--oceans
or
lakes
and
ponds,
or
rivers
of
it--that
there
is
water
away
from,
and
yet
not
far-remote
from,
this
earth's
atmosphere
and
gravitation--
The
pain
of
it:
That
the
snug
little
system
of
1882
would
be
ousted
from
its
reposefulness--
A
whole
new
science
to
learn:
The
Science
of
Super-Geography--
And
Science
is
a
turtle
that
says
that
its
own
shell
encloses
all
things.
So
the
members
of
the
British
Association.
To
some
of
them
Prof.
Schwedoff's
ideas
were
like
slaps
on
the
back
of
an
environment-denying
turtle:
to
some
of
them
his
heresy
was
like
an
offering
of
meat,
raw
and
dripping,
to
milk-fed
lambs.
Some
of
them
bleated
like
lambs,
and
some
of
them
turled
like
turtles.
We
used
to
crucify,
but
now
we
ridicule:
or,
in
the
loss
of
vigor
of
all
progress,
the
spike
has
etherealized
into
the
laugh.
Sir
William
Thomson
ridiculed
the
heresy,
with
the
phantomosities
of
his
era:
That
all
bodies,
such
as
hailstones,
if
away
from
this
earth's
atmosphere,
would
have
to
move
at
planetary
velocity--which
would
be
positively
reasonable
if
the
pronouncements
of
St.
Isaac
were
anything
but
articles
of
faith--that
a
hailstone
falling
through
this
earth's
atmosphere,
with
planetary
velocity,
would
perform
13,000
times
as
much
work
as
would
raise
an
equal
weight
of
water
one
degree
centigrade,
and
therefore
never
fall
as
a
hailstone
at
all;
be
more
than
melted--super-volatalized--
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