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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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The
call
of
positiveness,
in
its
aspects
of
singleness,
or
homogeneity,
or
oneness,
or
completeness.
In
data
now
coming,
I
feel
it
myself.
A
Leverrier
studies
more
than
twenty
observations.
The
inclination
is
irresistible
to
think
that
they
all
relate
to
one
phenomenon.
It
is
an
expression
of
cosmic
inclination.
Most
of
the
observations
are
so
irreconcilable
with
any
acceptance
other
than
of
orbitless,
dirigible
worlds
that
he
shuts
his
eyes
to
more
than
two-thirds
of
them;
he
picks
out
six
that
can
give
him
the
illusion
of
completeness,
or
of
all
relating
to
one
planet.
Or
let
it
be
that
we
have
data
of
many
dark
bodies--still
do
we
incline
almost
irresistibly
to
think
of
one
of
them
as
the
dark-body-in-chief.
Dark
bodies,
floating,
or
navigating,
in
inter-planetary
space--and
I
conceive
of
one
that's
the
Prince
of
Dark
Bodies:
Melanicus.
Vast
dark
thing
with
the
wings
of
a
super-bat,
or
jet-black
super-construction;
most
likely
one
of
the
spores
of
the
Evil
One.
The
extraordinary
year,
1883:
London
Times,
Dec.
17,
1883:
Extract
from
a
letter
by
Hicks
Pashaw:
that,
in
Egypt,
Sept.
24,
1883,
he
had
seen,
through
glasses,
"an
immense
black
spot
upon
the
lower
part
of
the
sun."
Sun
spot,
maybe.
One
night
an
astronomer
was
looking
up
at
the
sky,
when
something
obscured
a
star,
for
three
and
a
half
seconds.
A
meteor
had
been
seen
nearby,
but
its
train
had
been
only
momentarily
visible.
Dr.
Wolf
was
the
astronomer
(Nature,
86-528).
The
next
datum
is
one
of
the
most
sensational
we
have,
except
that
there
is
very
little
to
it.
A
dark
object
that
was
seen
by
Prof.
Heis,
for
eleven
degrees
of
arc,
moving
slowly
across
the
Milky
Way.
(Greg's
Catalogue,
Rept.
Brit.
Assoc.,
1867-426.)
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