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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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We
accept
that
sometimes
fields
of
ice
pass
between
the
sun
and
the
earth:
that
many
strata
of
ice,
or
very
thick
fields
of
ice,
or
superimposed
fields
would
obscure
the
sun--that
there
have
been
occasions
when
the
sun
was
eclipsed
by
fields
of
ice:
Flammarion,
The
Atmosphere,
p.
394:
That
a
profound
darkness
came
upon
the
city
of
Brussels,
June
18,
1839:
There
fell
flat
pieces
of
ice,
an
inch
long.
Intense
darkness
at
Aitkin,
Minn.,
April
2,
1889:
sand
and
"solid
chunks
of
ice"
reported
to
have
fallen
(Science,
April
19,
1889).
In
Symons'
Meteorological
Magazine,
32-172,
are
outlined
rough-edged
but
smooth-surfaced
pieces
of
ice
that
fell
at
Manassas,
Virginia,
Aug.
10,
1897.
They
look
as
much
like
the
roughly
broken
fragments
of
a
smooth
sheet
of
ice--as
ever
have
roughly
broken
fragments
of
a
smooth
sheet
of
ice
looked.
About
two
inches
across,
and
one
inch
thick.
In
Cosmos,
3-116,
it
is
said
that,
at
Rouen,
July
5,
1853,
fell
irregular-shaped
pieces
of
ice,
about
the
size
of
a
hand,
described
as
looking
as
if
all
had
been
broken
from
one
enormous
block
of
ice.
That,
I
think,
was
an
aerial
iceberg.
In
the
awful
density,
or
almost
absolute
stupidity
of
the
19th
century,
it
never
occurred
to
anybody
to
look
for
traces
of
polar
bears
or
of
seals
upon
these
fragments.
Of
course,
seeing
what
we
want
to
see,
having
been
able
to
gather
these
data
only
because
they
are
in
agreement
with
notions
formed
in
advance,
we
are
not
so
respectful
to
our
own
notions
as
to
a
similar
impression
forced
upon
an
observer
who
had
no
theory
or
acceptance
to
support.
In
general,
our
prejudices
see
and
our
prejudices
investigate,
but
this
should
not
be
taken
as
an
absolute.
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