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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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I
have
been
very
much
struck
with
phenomena
of
"cup
marks."
They
look
to
me
like
symbols
of
communication.
But
they
do
not
look
to
me
like
means
of
communication
between
some
of
the
inhabitants
of
this
earth
and
other
inhabitants
of
this
earth.
My
own
impression
is
that
some
external
force
has
marked,
with
symbols,
rocks
of
this
earth,
from
far
away.
I
do
not
think
that
cup
marks
are
inscribed
communications
among
different
inhabitants
of
this
earth,
because
it
seems
too
unacceptable
that
inhabitants
of
China,
Scotland,
and
America
should
all
have
conceived
of
the
same
system.
Cup
marks
are
strings
of
cup-like
impressions
in
rocks.
Sometimes
there
are
rings
around
them,
and
sometimes
they
have
only
semi-circles.
Great
Britain,
America,
France,
Algeria,
Circassia,
Palestine:
they're
virtually
everywhere--except
in
the
far
north,
I
think.
In
China,
cliffs
are
dotted
with
them.
Upon
a
cliff
near
Lake
Como,
there
is
a
maze
of
these
markings.
In
Italy
and
Spain
and
India
they
occur
in
enormous
numbers.
Given
that
a
force,
say,
like
electric
force,
could,
from
a
distance,
mark
such
a
substance
as
rocks,
as,
from
a
distance
of
hundreds
of
miles,
selenium
can
be
marked
by
telephotographers--but
I
am
of
two
minds--
The
Lost
Explorers
from
Somewhere,
and
an
attempt,
from
Somewhere,
to
communicate
with
them:
so
a
frenzy
of
showering
of
messages
toward
this
earth,
in
the
hope
that
some
of
them
would
mark
rocks
near
the
lost
explorers--
Or
that
somewhere
upon
this
earth,
there
is
an
especial
rocky
surface,
or
receptor,
or
polar
construction,
or
a
steep,
conical
hill,
upon
which
for
ages
have
been
received
messages
from
some
other
world;
but
that
at
times
messages
go
astray
and
mark
substances
perhaps
thousands
of
miles
from
the
receptor:
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
