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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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With
dark
bodies
that
are
probably
external
to
our
own
solar
system,
I
have,
in
the
provincialism
that
no
one
can
escape,
not
much
concern.
Dark
bodies
afloat
in
outer
space
would
have
been
damned
a
few
years
ago,
but
now
they're
sanctioned
by
Prof.
Barnard--and,
if
he
says
they're
all
right,
you
may
think
of
them
without
the
fear
of
doing
something
wrong
or
ridiculous--the
close
kinship
we
note
so
often
between
the
evil
and
the
absurd--I
suppose
by
the
ridiculous
I
mean
the
froth
of
evil.
The
dark
companion
of
Algol,
for
instance.
Though
that's
a
clear
case
of
celestial
miscegenation,
the
purists,
or
positivists,
admit
that's
so.
In
the
Proceedings
of
the
National
Academy
of
Science,
1915-394,
Prof.
Barnard
writes
of
an
object--he
calls
it
an
"object"--in
Cephus.
His
idea
is
that
there
are
dark,
opaque
bodies
outside
this
solar
system.
But
in
the
Astrophysical
Journal,
1916-1,
he
modifies
into
regarding
them
as
"dark
nebulae."
That's
not
so
interesting.
We
accept
that
Venus,
for
instance,
has
often
been
visited
by
other
worlds,
or
by
super-constructions,
from
which
come
ciders
and
coke
and
coal;
that
sometimes
these
things
have
reflected
light
and
have
been
seen
from
this
earth--by
professional
astronomers.
It
will
be
noted
that
throughout
this
chapter
our
data
are
accursed
Brahmins--as,
by
hypnosis
and
inertia,
we
keep
on
and
keep
on
saying,
just
as
a
good
many
of
the
scientists
of
the
19th
century
kept
on
and
kept
on
admitting
the
power
of
the
system
that
preceded
them--or
Continuity
would
be
smashed.
There's
a
big
chance
here
for
us
to
be
instantaneously
translated
to
the
Positive
Absolute--oh,
well--
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