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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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As
to
free
will
and
Intermediatism--same
answer
as
to
everything
else.
By
free
will
we
mean
Independence--or
that
which
does
not
merge
away
into
something
else--so,
in
Intermediateness,
neither
free-will
nor
slave-will--but
a
different
approximation
for
every
so-called
person
toward
one
or
the
other
of
the
extremes.
The
hackneyed
way
of
expressing
this
seems
to
me
to
be
the
acceptable
way,
if
in
Intermediateness,
there
is
only
the
paradoxical:
that
we're
free
to
do
what
we
have
to
do.
I
am
not
convinced
that
we
make
a
fetish
of
the
preposterous.
I
think
our
feeling
is
that
in
first
gropings
there's
no
knowing
what
will
afterward
be
the
acceptable.
I
think
that
if
an
early
biologist
heard
of
birds
that
grow
on
trees,
he
should
record
that
he
had
heard
of
birds
that
grow
on
trees:
then
let
sorting
over
of
data
occur
afterward.
The
one
thing
that
we
try
to
tone
down
but
that
is
to
a
great
degree
unavoidable
is
having
our
data
all
mixed
up
like
Long
Island
and
Florida
in
the
minds
of
early
American
explorers.
My
own
notion
is
that
this
whole
book
is
very
much
like
a
map
of
North
America
in
which
the
Hudson
River
is
set
down
as
a
passage
leading
to
Siberia.
We
think
of
Monstrator
and
Melanicus
and
of
a
world
that
is
now
in
communication
with
this
earth:
if
so,
secretly,
with
certain
esoteric
ones
upon
this
earth.
Whether
that
world's
Monstrator
and
Monstrator's
Melanicus--must
be
the
subject
of
later
inquiry.
It
would
be
a
gross
thing
to
do:
solve
up
everything
now
and
leave
nothing
to
our
disciples.
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