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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Azuria
is
pretty
bad,
but
Azuria
is
no
worse
than
Neith.
Astrophysical
Journal,
1-127:
A
light-reflecting
body,
or
a
bright
spot
near
Mars:
seen
Nov.
25,
1894,
by
Prof.
Pickering
and
others,
at
the
Lowell
Observatory,
above
an
unilluminated
part
of
Mars--self-luminous,
it
would
seem--thought
to
have
been
a
cloud--but
estimated
to
have
been
about
twenty
miles
away
from
the
planet.
Luminous
spot
seen
moving
across
the
disk
of
Mercury,
in
1799,
by
Harding
and
Schroeter.
(Monthly
Notices
of
the
R.A.S.,
38-338.)
In
the
first
Bulletin
issued
by
the
Lowell
Observatory,
in
1903,
Prof.
Lowell
describes
a
body
that
was
seen
on
the
terminator
of
Mars,
May
20,
1903.
On
May
27,
it
was
"suspected."
If
still
there,
it
had
moved,
we
are
told,
about
300
miles--"probably
a
dust
cloud."
Very
conspicuous
and
brilliant
spots
seen
on
the
disk
of
Mars,
October
and
November,
1911.
(Popular
Astronomy,
Vol.
19,
No.
10.)
So
one
of
them
accepted
six
or
seven
observations
that
were
in
agreement,
except
that
they
could
not
be
regularized,
upon
a
world--planet--satellite--and
he
gave
it
a
name.
He
named
it
"Neith."
Monstrator
and
Elvera
and
Azuria
and
Super-Romanimus--
Or
heresy
and
orthodoxy
and
the
oneness
of
all
quasiness,
and
our
ways
and
means
and
methods
are
the
very
same.
Or,
if
we
name
things
that
may
not
be,
we
are
not
of
lonely
guilt
in
the
nomenclature
of
absences--
But
now
Leverrier
and
"Vulcan."
Leverrier
again.
Or
to
demonstrate
the
collapsibility
of
a
froth,
stick
a
pin
in
the
largest
bubble
of
it.
Astronomy
and
inflation:
and
by
inflation
we
mean
expansion
of
the
attenuated.
Or
that
the
science
of
Astronomy
is
a
phantom-film
distended
with
myth-stuff--but
always
our
acceptance
that
it
approximates
higher
to
substantiality
than
did
the
system
that
preceded
it.
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