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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Sig.
Ricco's
estimate
is
that
these
objects
or
beings
or
cranes
must
have
been
at
least
five
and
a
half
miles
high.
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The
vast
dark
thing
that
looked
like
a
poised
crow
of
unholy
dimensions.
Assuming
that
I
shall
ever
have
any
readers,
let
him,
or
both
of
them,
if
I
shall
ever
have
such
popularity
as
that,
note
how
dim
that
bold
black
datum
is
at
the
distance
of
only
two
chapters.
The
question:
Was
it
a
thing
or
the
shadow
of
a
thing?
Acceptance
either
way
calls
not
for
mere
revision
but
revolution
in
the
science
of
astronomy.
But
the
dimness
of
the
datum
of
only
two
chapters
ago.
The
carved
stone
disk
of
Tarbes,
and
the
rain
that
fell
every
afternoon
for
twenty--if
I
haven't
forgotten,
myself,
whether
it
was
twenty-three
or
twenty-five
days!--upon
one
small
area.
We
are
all
Thomsons,
with
brains
that
have
smooth
and
slippery,
though
corrugated,
surfaces--or
that
all
intellection
is
associative--or
that
we
remember
that
which
correlates
with
a
dominant--and
a
few
chapters
go
by,
and
there's
scarcely
an
impression
that
hasn't
slid
off
our
smooth
and
slippery
brains,
of
Leverrier
and
the
"planet
Vulcan."
There
are
two
ways
by
which
irreconcilables
can
be
remembered--if
they
can
be
correlated
in
a
system
more
nearly
real
than
the
system
that
rejects
them--and
by
repetition
and
repetition
and
repetition.
Vast
black
thing
like
a
crow
poised
over
the
moon.
The
datum
is
so
important
to
us,
because
it
enforces,
in
another
field,
our
acceptance
that
dark
bodies
of
planetary
size
traverse
this
solar
system.
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