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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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We
now
come
to
some
remarkable
data
in
a
rather
difficult
department
of
super-geography.
Vast
fields
of
aerial
ice.
There's
a
lesson
to
me
in
the
treachery
of
the
imaginable.
Most
of
our
opposition
is
in
the
clearness
with
which
the
conventional,
but
impossible,
becomes
the
imaginable,
and
then
the
resistant
to
modifications.
After
it
had
become
the
conventional
with
me,
I
conceived
clearly
of
vast
sheets
of
ice,
a
few
miles
above
this
earth--then
the
shining
of
the
sun,
and
the
ice
partly
melting--that
note
upon
the
ice
that
fell
at
Derby--water
trickling
and
forming
icicles
upon
the
lower
surface
of
the
ice
sheet.
I
seemed
to
look
up
and
so
clearly
visualized
those
icicles
hanging
like
stalactites
from
a
flat-roofed
cave,
in
white
calcite.
Or
I
looked
up
at
the
under
side
of
an
aerial
ice-lump,
and
seemed
to
see
a
papillation
similar
to
that
observed
by
a
calf
at
times.
But
then--but
then--if
icicles
should
form
upon
the
under
side
of
a
sheet
of
aerial
ice,
that
would
be
by
the
falling
of
water
toward
this
earth;
an
icicle
is
of
course
an
expression
of
gravitation--and,
if
water
melting
from
ice
should
fall
toward
this
earth,
why
not
the
ice
itself
fall
before
an
icicle
could
have
time
to
form?
Of
course,
in
quasi-existence,
where
everything
is
a
paradox,
one
might
argue
that
the
water
falls,
but
the
ice
does
not,
because
the
ice
is
heavier--that
is,
in
masses.
That
notion,
I
think,
belongs
in
a
more
advanced
course
than
we
are
taking
at
present.
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