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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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I
think
that
even
more
amusing
is
our
own
acceptance
that,
not
very
far
above
this
earth's
surface,
is
a
region
that
will
be
the
subject
of
a
whole
new
science--super-geography--with
which
we
shall
immortalize
ourselves
in
the
resentments
of
the
schoolboys
of
the
future--
Pebbles
and
fragments
of
meteors
and
things
from
Mars
and
Jupiter
and
Azuria:
wedges,
delayed
messages,
cannon
balls,
bricks,
nails,
coal
and
coke
and
charcoal
and
offensive
old
cargoes--things
that
coat
in
ice
in
some
regions
and
things
that
get
into
areas
so
warm
that
they
putrefy--or
that
there
are
all
the
climates
of
geography
in
super-geography.
I
shall
have
to
accept
that,
floating
in
the
sky
of
this
earth,
there
often
are
fields
of
ice
as
extensive
as
those
on
the
Arctic
Ocean--volumes
of
water
in
which
are
many
fishes
and
frogs--tracts
of
land
covered
with
caterpillars--
Aviators
of
the
future.
They
fly
up
and
up.
Then
they
get
out
and
walk.
The
fishing's
good:
the
bait's
right
there.
They
find
messages
from
other
worlds--and
within
three
weeks
there's
a
big
trade
worked
up
in
forged
messages.
Sometime
I
shall
write
a
guide
book
to
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea,
for
aviators,
but
just
at
present
there
wouldn't
be
much
call
for
it.
We
now
have
more
of
our
expression
upon
hail
as
a
concomitant,
or
more
data
of
things
that
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
with
hail.
In
general,
the
expression
is:
These
things
may
have
been
raised
from
some
other
part
of
the
earth's
surface,
in
whirlwinds,
or
may
not
have
fallen,
and
may
have
been
upon
the
ground,
in
the
first
place--but
were
the
hailstones
found
with
them,
raised
from
some
other
part
of
the
earth's
surface,
or
were
the
hailstones
upon
the
ground,
in
the
first
place?
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