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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Nature,
22-64:
That,
at
Kattenau,
Germany,
about
half
an
hour
before
sunrise,
March
22,
1880,
"an
enormous
number
of
luminous
bodies
rose
from
the
horizon,
and
passed
in
a
horizontal
direction
from
east
to
west."
They
are
described
as
having
appeared
in
a
zone
or
belt.
"They
shone
with
a
remarkably
brilliant
light."
So
they've
thrown
lassos
over
our
data
to
bring
them
back
to
earth.
But
they're
lassos
that
cannot
tighten.
We
can't
pull
out
of
them:
we
may
step
out
of
them,
or
lift
them
off.
Some
of
us
used
to
have
an
impression
of
Science
sitting
in
calm,
just
judgment:
some
of
us
now
feel
that
a
good
many
of
our
data
have
been
lynched.
If
a
Crusade,
perhaps
from
Mars
to
Jupiter,
occur
in
the
autumn--"seeds."
If
a
Crusade
or
outpouring
of
celestial
vandals
is
seen
from
this
earth
in
the
spring--"ice
crystals."
If
we
have
record
of
a
race
of
aerial
beings,
perhaps
with
no
substantial
habitat,
seen
by
someone
in
India--"locusts."
This
will
be
disregarded:
If
locusts
fly
high,
they
freeze
and
fall
in
thousands.
Nature,
47-581:
Locusts
that
were
seen
in
the
mountains
of
India,
at
a
height
of
12,750
feet--"in
swarms
and
dying
by
thousands."
But
no
matter
whether
they
fly
high
or
fly
low,
no
one
ever
wonders
what's
in
the
air
when
locusts
are
passing
overhead,
because
of
the
falling
of
stragglers.
I
have
especially
looked
this
matter
up--no
mystery
when
locusts
are
flying
overhead--constant
falling
of
stragglers.
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