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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
264
Monthly
Notices,
12-183:
Letter
from
Rev.
W.R.
Dawes:
That
he
had
seen
similar
objects--and
in
the
month
of
September--that
they
were
nothing
but
seeds
floating
in
the
air.
In
the
Report
of
the
British
Association,
1852-235,
there
is
a
communication
from
Mr.
Read
to
Prof.
Baden-Powell:
That
the
objects
that
had
been
seen
by
him
and
by
Mr.
Dawes
were
not
similar.
He
denies
that
he
had
seen
seeds
floating
in
the
air.
There
had
been
little
wind,
and
that
had
come
from
the
sea,
where
seeds
would
not
be
likely
to
have
origin.
The
objects
that
he
had
seen
were
round
and
sharply
defined,
and
with
none
of
the
feathery
appearance
of
thistledown.
He
then
quotes
from
a
letter
from
C.B.
Chalmers,
F.R.A.S.,
who
had
seen
a
similar
stream,
a
procession,
or
migration,
except
that
some
of
the
bodies
were
more
elongated--or
lean
and
hungry--than
globular.
He
might
have
argued
for
sixty-five
years.
He'd
have
impressed
nobody--of
importance.
The
super-motif,
or
dominant,
of
his
era,
was
Exclusionism,
and
the
notion
of
seeds
in
the
air
assimilates--with
due
disregards--with
that
dominant.
Or
pageantries
here
upon
our
earth,
and
things
looking
down
upon
us--and
the
Crusades
were
only
dust
clouds,
and
glints
of
the
sun
on
shining
armor
were
only
particles
of
mica
in
dust
clouds.
I
think
it
was
a
Crusade
that
Read
saw--but
that
it
was
right,
relatively
to
the
year
1851,
to
say
that
it
was
only
seeds
in
the
wind,
whether
the
wind
blew
from
the
sea
or
not.
I
think
of
things
that
were
luminous
with
religious
zeal,
mixed
up,
like
everything
else
in
Intermediateness,
with
black
marauders
and
from
gray
to
brown
beings
of
little
personal
ambitions.
There
may
have
been
a
Richard
Coeur
de
Lion,
on
his
way
to
right
wrongs
in
Jupiter.
It
was
right,
relatively
to
1851,
to
say
that
he
was
a
seed
of
a
cabbage.
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