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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Nevertheless,
the
Monthly
Weather
Review,
May,
1877,
reports
a
golden-yellow
fall,
of
Feb.
27,
1877,
at
Peckloh,
Germany,
in
which
four
kinds
of
organisms,
not
pollen,
were
the
coloring
matter.
There
were
minute
things
shaped
like
arrows,
coffee
beans,
horns,
and
disks.
They
may
have
been
symbols.
They
may
have
been
objective
hieroglyphics--
Mere
passing
fancy--let
it
go--
In
the
Annales
de
Chimie,
85-288,
there
is
a
list
of
rains
said
to
have
contained
sulphur.
I
have
thirty
or
forty
other
notes.
I'll
not
use
one
of
them.
I'll
admit
that
every
one
of
them
is
upon
a
fall
of
pollen.
I
said,
to
begin
with,
that
our
methods
would
be
the
methods
of
theologians
and
scientists,
and
they
always
begin
with
an
appearance
of
liberality.
I
grant
thirty
or
forty
points
to
start
with.
I'm
as
liberal
as
any
of
them--or
that
my
liberality
won't
cost
me
anything--the
enormousness
of
the
data
that
we
shall
have.
Or
just
to
look
over
a
typical
instance
of
this
dogma,
and
the
way
it
works
out:
In
the
American
Journal
of
Science,
1-42-196,
we
are
told
of
a
yellow
substance
that
fell
by
the
bucketful
upon
a
vessel,
one
"windless"
night
in
June,
in
Pictou
Harbor,
Nova
Scotia.
The
writer
analyzed
the
substance,
and
it
was
found
to
"give
off
nitrogen
and
ammonia
and
an
animal
odor."
Now,
one
of
our
Intermediatist
principles,
to
start
with,
is
that
so
far
from
positive,
in
the
aspect
of
Homogeneousness,
are
all
substances,
that,
at
least
in
what
is
called
an
elementary
sense,
anything
can
be
found
anywhere.
Mahogany
logs
on
the
coast
of
Greenland;
bugs
of
a
valley
on
the
top
of
Mt.
Blanc;
atheists
at
a
prayer
meeting;
ice
in
India.
For
instance,
chemical
analysis
can
reveal
that
almost
any
dead
man
was
poisoned
with
arsenic,
we'll
say,
because
there
is
no
stomach
without
some
iron,
lead,
tin,
gold,
arsenic
in
it
and
of
it--which,
of
course,
in
a
broader
sense,
doesn't
matter
much,
because
a
certain
number
of
persons
must,
as
a
restraining
influence,
be
executed
for
murder
every
year;
and,
if
detectives
aren't
able
really
to
detect
anything,
illusion
of
their
success
is
all
that
is
necessary,
and
it
is
very
honorable
to
give
up
one's
life
for
society
as
a
whole.
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