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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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There
can
be
no
real
science
where
there
are
indeterminate
variables,
but
every
variable
is,
in
finer
terms,
indeterminate,
or
irregular,
if
only
to
have
the
appearance
of
being
in
Intermediateness
is
to
express
regularity
unattained.
The
invariable,
or
the
real
and
stable,
would
be
nothing
at
all
in
Intermediateness--rather
as,
but
in
relative
terms,
an
undistorted
interpretation
of
external
sounds
in
the
mind
of
a
dreamer
could
not
continue
to
exist
in
a
dreaming
mind,
because
that
touch
of
relative
realness
would
be
of
awakening
and
not
of
dreaming.
Science
is
the
attempt
to
awaken
to
realness,
wherein
it
is
attempt
to
find
regularity
and
uniformity.
Or
the
regular
and
uniform
would
be
that
which
has
nothing
external
to
disturb
it.
By
the
universal
we
mean
the
real.
Or
the
notion
is
that
the
underlying
super-attempt,
as
expressed
in
Science,
is
indifferent
to
the
subject-matter
of
Science:
that
the
attempt
to
regularize
is
the
vital
spirit.
Bugs
and
stars
and
chemical
messes:
that
they
are
only
quasi-real,
and
that
of
them
there
is
nothing
real
to
know;
but
that
systematization
of
pseudo-data
is
approximation
to
realness
or
final
awakening--
Or
a
dreaming
mind--and
its
centaurs
and
canary
birds
that
turn
into
giraffes--there
could
be
no
real
biology
upon
such
subjects,
but
attempt,
in
a
dreaming
mind,
to
systematize
such
appearances
would
be
movement
toward
awakening--if
better
mental
co-ordination
is
all
that
we
mean
by
the
state
of
being
awake--relatively
awake.
So
it
is,
that
having
attempted
to
systematize,
by
ignoring
externality
to
the
greatest
possible
degree,
the
notion
of
things
dropping
in
upon
this
earth,
from
externality,
is
as
unsettling
and
as
unwelcome
to
Science
as--tin
horns
blowing
in
upon
a
musician's
relatively
symmetric
composition--flies
alighting
upon
a
painter's
attempted
harmony,
and
tracking
colors
one
into
another--suffragist
getting
up
and
making
a
political
speech
at
a
prayer
meeting.
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