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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Our
own
acceptance
upon
dirigible
worlds,
which
is
assuredly
enough,
more
nearly
real
than
attempted
concepts
of
large
planets
relatively
near
this
earth,
moving
in
orbits,
but
visible
only
occasionally;
which
more
nearly
approximates
to
reasonableness
than
does
wholesale
slaughter
of
Swift
and
Watson
and
Fritsche
and
Stark
and
De
Cuppis--but
our
own
acceptance
is
so
painful
to
so
many
minds
that,
in
another
of
the
charitable
moments
that
we
have
now
and
then
for
the
sake
of
contrast,
we
offer
relief:
The
things
seen
high
in
the
sky
by
Swift
and
Watson--
Well,
only
two
months
before--the
horse
and
the
barn--
We
go
on
with
more
observations
by
astronomers,
recognizing
that
it
is
the
very
thing
that
has
given
them
life,
sustained
them,
held
them
together,
that
has
crushed
all
but
the
quasi-gleam
of
independent
life
out
of
them.
Were
they
not
systematized,
they
could
not
be
at
all,
except
sporadically
and
without
sustenance.
They
are
systematized:
they
must
not
vary
from
the
conditions
of
the
system:
they
must
not
break
away
for
themselves.
The
two
great
commandments:
Thou
shalt
not
break
Continuity;
Thou
shalt
try.
We
go
on
with
these
disregarded
data,
some
of
which,
many
of
which,
are
of
the
highest
degree
of
acceptability.
It
is
the
System
that
pulls
back
its
variations,
as
this
earth
is
pulling
back
the
Matterhorn.
It
is
the
System
that
nourishes
and
rewards,
and
also
freezes
out
life
with
the
chill
of
disregard.
We
do
note
that,
before
excommunication
is
pronounced,
orthodox
journals
do
liberally
enough
record
unassimilable
observations.
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