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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
265
Prof.
Coffin,
U.S.N.
(Jour.
Frank.
Inst.,
88-151):
That,
during
the
eclipse
of
August,
1869,
he
had
noted
the
passage,
across
his
telescope,
of
several
bright
flakes
resembling
thistleblows,
floating
in
the
sunlight.
But
the
telescope
was
so
focused
that,
if
these
things
were
distinct,
they
must
have
been
so
far
away
from
this
earth
that
the
difficulties
of
orthodoxy
remain
as
great,
one
way
or
another,
no
matter
what
we
think
they
were--
They
were
"well-defined,"
says
Prof.
Coffin.
Henry
Waldner
(Nature,
5-304):
That,
April
27,
1863,
he
had
seen
great
numbers
of
small,
shining
bodies
passing
from
west
to
east.
He
had
notified
Dr.
Wolf,
of
the
Observatory
of
Zurich,
who
"had
convinced
himself
of
this
strange
phenomenon."
Dr.
Wolf
had
told
him
that
similar
bodies
had
been
seen
by
Sig.
Capocci,
of
the
Capodimonte
Observatory,
at
Naples,
May
11,
1845.
The
shapes
were
of
great
diversity--or
different
aspects
of
similar
shapes?
Appendages
were
seen
upon
some
of
them.
We
are
told
that
some
were
star-shaped,
with
transparent
appendages.
I
think,
myself,
it
was
a
Mohammed
and
his
Hegira.
May
have
been
only
his
harem.
Astonishing
sensation:
afloat
in
space
with
ten
million
wives
around
one.
Anyway,
it
would
seem
that
we
have
considerable
advantage
here,
inasmuch
as
seeds
are
not
in
season
in
April--but
the
pulling
back
to
earth,
the
bedraggling
by
those
sincere
but
dull
ones
of
some
time
ago.
We
have
the
same
stupidity--necessary,
functioning
stupidity--of
attribution
of
something
that
was
so
rare
that
an
astronomer
notes
only
one
instance
between
1845
and
1863,
to
an
every-day
occurrence--
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