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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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The
preparations
they
made,
before
March
22,
1877.
In
England,
the
Astronomer
Royal
made
it
the
expectation
of
his
life:
notified
observers
at
Madras,
Melbourne,
Sydney,
and
New
Zealand,
and
arranged
with
observers
in
Chili
and
the
United
States.
M.
Struve
had
prepared
for
observations
in
Siberia
and
Japan--
March
22,
1877--
Not
absolutely,
hypocritically,
I
think
it's
pathetic,
myself.
If
anyone
should
doubt
the
sincerity
of
Leverrier,
in
this
matter,
we
note,
whether
it
has
meaning
or
not,
that
a
few
months
later
he
died.
I
think
we'll
take
up
Monstrator,
though
there's
so
much
to
this
subject
that
we'll
have
to
come
back.
According
to
the
Annual
Register,
9-120,
upon
the
9th
of
August,
1762,
M.
de
Rostan,
of
Basle,
France,
was
taking
altitudes
of
the
sun,
at
Lausanne.
He
saw
a
vast,
spindle-shaped
body,
about
three
of
the
sun's
digits
in
breadth
and
nine
in
length,
advancing
slowly
across
the
disk
of
the
sun,
or
"at
no
more
than
half
the
velocity
with
which
the
ordinary
solar
spots
move."
It
did
not
disappear
until
the
7th
of
September,
when
it
reached
the
sun's
limb.
Because
of
the
spindle-like
form,
I
incline
to
think
of
a
super-Zeppelin,
but
another
observation,
which
seems
to
indicate
that
it
was
a
world,
is
that,
though
it
was
opaque,
and
"eclipsed
the
sun,"
it
had
around
it
a
kind
of
nebulosity--or
atmosphere?
A
penumbra
would
ordinarily
be
a
datum
of
a
sun
spot,
but
there
are
observations
that
indicate
that
this
object
was
at
a
considerable
distance
from
the
sun:
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
