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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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All
things
merge
away
into
everything
else.
That
is
Continuity.
So
the
System
merges
away
and
evades
us
when
we
try
to
focus
against
it.
We
have
complained
a
great
deal.
At
least
we
are
not
so
dull
as
to
have
the
delusion
that
we
know
just
exactly
what
it
is
that
we
are
complaining
about.
We
speak
seemingly
definitely
enough
of
"the
System,"
but
we're
building
upon
observations
by
members
of
that
very
system.
Or
what
we
are
doing--gathering
up
the
loose
heresies
of
the
orthodox.
Of
course
"the
System"
fringes
and
ravels
away,
having
no
real
outline.
A
Swift
will
antagonize
"the
System,"
and
a
Lockyer
will
call
him
back;
but,
then,
a
Lockyer
will
vary
with
a
"meteoric
hypothesis,"
and
a
Swift
will,
in
turn,
represent
"the
System."
This
state
is
to
us
typical
of
all
intermediatist
phenomena;
or
that
not
conceivably
is
anything
really
anything,
if
its
parts
are
likely
to
be
their
own
opposites
at
any
time.
We
speak
of
astronomers--as
if
there
were
real
astronomers--but
who
have
lost
their
identity
in
a
System--as
if
it
were
a
real
System--but
behind
that
System
is
plainly
a
rapport,
or
loss
of
identity
in
the
Spirit
of
an
Era.
Bodies
that
have
looked
like
dark
bodies,
and
lights
that
may
have
been
sunlight
reflected
from
inter-planetary--objects,
masses,
constructions--
Lights
that
have
been
seen
upon--or
near?--the
moon:
In
Philosophical
Transactions,
82-27,
is
Herschel's
report
upon
many
luminous
points,
which
he
saw
upon--or
near?--the
moon,
during
an
eclipse.
Why
they
should
be
luminous,
whereas
the
moon
itself
was
dark,
would
get
us
into
a
lot
of
trouble--except
that
later
we
shall,
or
we
sha'n't,
accept
that
many
times
have
luminous
objects
been
seen
close
to
this
earth--at
night.
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