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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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That
perhaps
forces
behind
the
history
of
this
earth
have
left
upon
the
rocks
of
Palestine
and
England
and
India
and
China
records
that
may
some
day
be
deciphered,
of
their
misdirected
instructions
to
certain
esoteric
ones--Order
of
the
Freemasons--the
Jesuits--
I
emphasize
the
row-formation
of
cup
marks:
Prof.
Douglas
(Saturday
Review,
Nov.
24,
1883):
"Whatever
may
have
been
their
motive,
the
cup-markers
showed
a
decided
liking
for
arranging
their
sculpturings
in
regularly
spaced
rows."
That
cup
marks
are
an
archaic
form
of
inscription
was
first
suggested
by
Canon
Greenwell
many
years
ago.
But
more
specifically
adumbratory
to
our
own
expression
are
the
observations
of
Rivett-Carnac
(Jour.
Roy.
Asiatic
Soc.,
1903-515):
That
the
Braille
system
of
raised
dots
is
an
inverted
arrangement
of
cup
marks:
also
that
there
are
strong
resemblances
to
the
Morse
code.
But
no
tame
and
systematized
archaeologist
can
do
more
than
casually
point
out
resemblances,
and
merely
suggest
that
strings
of
cup
marks
look
like
messages,
because--China,
Switzerland,
Algeria,
America--if
messages
they
be,
there
seems
to
be
no
escape
from
attributing
one
origin
to
them--then,
if
messages
they
be,
I
accept
one
external
origin,
to
which
the
whole
surface
of
this
earth
was
accessible,
for
them.
Something
else
that
we
emphasize:
That
rows
of
cup
marks
have
often
been
likened
to
footprints.
But,
in
this
similitude,
their
unilinear
arrangement
must
be
disregarded--of
course
often
they're
mixed
up
in
every
way,
but
arrangement
in
single
lines
is
very
common.
It
is
odd
that
they
should
so
often
be
likened
to
footprints:
I
suppose
there
are
exceptional
cases,
but
unless
it's
something
that
hops
on
one
foot,
or
a
cat
going
along
a
narrow
fence-top,
I
don't
think
of
anything
that
makes
footprints
one
directly
ahead
of
another--Cop,
in
a
station
house,
walking
a
chalk
line,
perhaps.
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