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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Our
expression
upon
icicles:
A
vast
field
of
aerial
ice--it
is
inert
to
this
earth's
gravitation--but
by
universal
flux
and
variation,
part
of
it
sags
closer
to
this
earth,
and
is
susceptible
to
gravitation--by
cohesion
with
the
main
mass,
this
part
does
not
fall,
but
water
melting
from
it
does
fall,
and
forms
icicles--then,
by
various
disturbances,
this
part
sometimes
falls
in
fragments
that
are
protrusive
with
icicles.
Of
the
ice
that
fell,
some
of
it
enclosing
living
frogs,
at
Dubuque,
Iowa,
June
16,
1882,
it
is
said
(Monthly
Weather
Review,
June,
1882)
that
there
were
pieces
from
one
to
seventeen
inches
in
circumference,
the
largest
weighing
one
pound
and
three-quarters--that
upon
some
of
them
were
icicles
half
an
inch
in
length.
We
emphasize
that
these
objects
were
not
hailstones.
The
only
merger
is
that
of
knobby
hailstones,
or
of
large
hailstones
with
protuberances
wrought
by
crystallization:
but
that
is
no
merger
with
terrestrial
phenomena,
and
such
formations
are
unaccountable
to
orthodoxy;
or
it
is
incredible
that
hail
could
so
crystallize--not
forming
by
accretion--in
the
fall
of
a
few
seconds.
For
an
account
of
such
hailstones,
see
Nature,
61-594.
Note
the
size--"some
of
them
the
size
of
turkeys'
eggs."
It
is
our
expression
that
sometimes
the
icicles
themselves
have
fallen,
as
if
by
concussion,
or
as
if
something
had
swept
against
the
under
side
of
an
aerial
ice
floe,
detaching
its
papillations.
Monthly
Weather
Review,
June,
1889:
That,
at
Oswego,
N.Y.,
June
11,
1889,
according
to
the
Turin
(N.Y.)
Leader,
there
fell,
in
a
thunderstorm,
pieces
of
ice
that
"resembled
the
fragments
of
icicles."
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