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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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I
suppose
that,
at
the
beginning
of
this
chapter,
one
had
the
notion
that,
by
hard
scratching
through
musty
old
records
we
might
rake
up
vague,
more
than
doubtful
data,
distortable
into
what's
called
evidence
of
unrecognized
worlds
or
constructions
of
planetary
size--
But
the
high
authenticity
and
the
support
and
the
modernity
of
these
of
the
accursed
that
we
are
now
considering--
And
our
acceptance
that
ours
is
a
quasi-existence,
in
which
above
all
other
things,
hopes,
ambitions,
emotions,
motivations,
stands
Attempt
to
Positivize:
that
we
are
here
considering
an
attempt
to
systematize
that
is
sheer
fanaticism
in
its
disregard
of
the
unsystematizable--that
it
represented
the
highest
good
in
the
19th
century--that
it
is
mono-mania,
but
heroic
mono-mania
that
was
quasi-divine
in
the
19th
century--
But
that
this
isn't
the
19th
century.
As
a
doubly
sponsored
Brahmin--in
the
regard
of
Baptists--the
objects
of
July
29,
1878,
stand
out
and
proclaim
themselves
so
that
nothing
but
disregard
of
the
intensity
of
mono-mania
can
account
for
their
reception
by
the
system:
Or
the
total
eclipse
of
July
29,
1878,
and
the
reports
by
Prof.
Watson,
from
Rawlins,
Wyoming,
and
by
Prof.
Swift,
from
Denver,
Colorado:
that
they
had
seen
two
shining
objects
at
a
considerable
distance
from
the
sun.
It's
quite
in
accord
with
our
general
expression:
not
that
there
is
an
Intra-Mercurial
planet,
but
that
there
are
different
bodies,
many
vast
things;
near
this
earth
sometimes,
near
the
sun
sometimes;
orbitless
worlds,
which,
because
of
scarcely
any
data
of
collisions,
we
think
of
as
under
navigable
control--or
dirigible
super-constructions.
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