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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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One
of
our
quasi-reasons
for
accepting
that
orbitless
worlds
are
dirigible
is
the
almost
complete
absence
of
data
of
collisions:
of
course,
though
in
defiance
of
gravitation,
they
may,
without
direction
like
human
direction,
adjust
to
one
another
in
the
way
of
vortex
rings
of
smoke--a
very
human-like
way,
that
is.
But
in
Knowledge,
February,
1894,
are
two
photographs
of
Brooks'
comet
that
are
shown
as
evidence
of
its
seeming
collision
with
a
dark
object,
October,
1893.
Our
own
wording
is
that
it
"struck
against
something":
Prof.
Barnard's
is
that
it
had
"entered
some
dense
medium,
which
shattered
it."
For
all
I
know
it
had
knocked
against
merely
a
field
of
ice.
Melanicus.
That
upon
the
wings
of
a
super-bat,
he
broods
over
this
earth
and
over
other
worlds,
perhaps
deriving
something
from
them:
hovers
on
wings,
or
wing-like
appendages,
or
planes
that
are
hundreds
of
miles
from
tip
to
tip--a
super-evil
thing
that
is
exploiting
us.
By
Evil
I
mean
that
which
makes
us
useful.
He
obscures
a
star.
He
shoves
a
comet.
I
think
he's
a
vast,
black,
brooding
vampire.
Science,
July
31,
1896:
That,
according
to
a
newspaper
account,
Mr.
W.R.
Brooks,
director
of
the
Smith
Observatory,
had
seen
a
dark
round
object
pass
rather
slowly
across
the
moon,
in
a
horizontal
direction.
In
Mr.
Brooks'
opinion
it
was
a
dark
meteor.
In
Science,
Sept.
14,
1896,
a
correspondent
writes
that,
in
his
opinion,
it
may
have
been
a
bird.
We
shall
have
no
trouble
with
the
meteor
and
bird
mergers,
if
we
have
observations
of
long
duration
and
estimates
of
size
up
to
hundreds
of
miles.
As
to
the
body
that
was
seen
by
Brooks,
there
is
a
note
from
the
Dutch
astronomer,
Muller,
in
the
Scientific
American,
75-251,
that,
upon
April
4,
1892,
he
had
seen
a
similar
phenomenon.
In
Science
Gossip,
n.s.,
3-135,
are
more
details
of
the
Brooks
object--apparent
diameter
about
one-thirtieth
of
the
moon's--moon's
disk
crossed
in
three
or
four
seconds.
The
writer,
in
Science
Gossip,
says
that,
on
June
27,
1896,
at
one
o'clock
in
the
morning,
he
was
looking
at
the
moon
with
a
2-inch
achromatic,
power
44,
when
a
long
black
object
sailed
past,
from
west
to
east,
the
transit
occupying
3
or
4
seconds.
He
believed
this
object
to
be
a
bird--there
was,
however,
no
fluttering
motion
observable
in
it.
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