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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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A
puzzle:
If
it
is
our
acceptance
that,
out
of
the
Negative
Absolute,
the
Positive
Absolute
is
generating
itself,
recruiting,
or
maintaining,
itself,
via
a
third
state,
or
our
own
quasi-state,
it
would
seem
that
we're
trying
to
conceive
of
Universalness
manufacturing
more
Universalness
from
Nothingness.
Take
that
up
yourself,
if
you're
willing
to
run
the
risk
of
disappearing
with
such
velocity
that
you'll
leave
an
incandescent
train
behind,
and
risk
being
infinitely
happy
forever,
whereas
you
probably
don't
want
to
be
happy--I'll
sidestep
that
myself,
and
try
to
be
intelligible
by
regarding
the
Positive
Absolute
from
the
aspect
of
Realness
instead
of
Universalness,
recalling
that
by
both
Realness
and
Universalness
we
mean
the
same
state,
or
that
which
does
not
merge
away
into
something
else,
because
there
is
nothing
else.
So
the
idea
is
that
out
of
Unrealness,
instead
of
Nothingness,
Realness,
instead
of
Universalness,
is,
via
our
own
quasi-state,
manufacturing
more
Realness.
Just
so,
but
in
relative
terms,
of
course,
all
imaginings
that
materialize
into
machines
or
statues,
buildings,
dollars,
paintings
or
books
in
paper
and
ink
are
graduations
from
unrealness
to
realness--in
relative
terms.
It
would
seem
then
that
Intermediateness
is
a
relation
between
the
Positive
Absolute
and
the
Negative
Absolute.
But
the
absolute
cannot
be
the
related--of
course
a
confession
that
we
can't
really
think
of
it
at
all,
if
here
we
think
of
a
limit
to
the
unlimited.
Doing
the
best
we
can,
and
encouraged
by
the
reflection
that
we
can't
do
worse
than
has
been
done
by
metaphysicians
in
the
past,
we
accept
that
the
absolute
can't
be
the
related.
So
then
that
our
quasi-state
is
not
a
real
relation,
if
nothing
in
it
is
real.
On
the
other
hand,
it
is
not
an
unreal
relation,
if
nothing
in
it
is
unreal.
It
seems
thinkable
that
the
Positive
Absolute
can,
by
means
of
Intermediateness,
have
a
quasi-relation,
or
be
only
quasi-related,
or
be
the
unrelated,
in
final
terms,
or,
at
least,
not
be
the
related,
in
final
terms.
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