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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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According
to
our
religion,
if
he
had
then
given
all
his
time
to
the
maintaining
of
this
one
stand,
of
course
breaking
all
friendships,
all
ties
with
his
fellow
astronomers,
his
apotheosis
would
have
occurred,
greatly
assisted
by
means
well
known
to
quasi-existence
when
its
compromises
and
evasions,
and
phenomena
that
are
partly
this
and
partly
that,
are
flouted
by
the
definite
and
uncompromising.
It
would
be
impossible
in
a
real
existence,
but
Mr.
Russell,
of
quasi-existence,
says
that
he
did
resist
the
conviction;
that
he
had
said
that
one
could
"hardly
resist";
and
most
of
his
resentment
is
against
Mr.
Proctor's
thinking
that
he
had
not
resisted.
It
seems
too
bad--if
apotheosis
be
desirable.
The
point
in
Intermediatism
here
is:
Not
that
to
adapt
to
the
conditions
of
quasi-existence
is
to
have
what
is
called
success
in
quasi-existence,
but
is
to
lose
one's
soul--
But
is
to
lose
"one's"
chance
of
attaining
soul,
self,
or
entity.
One
indignation
quoted
from
Proctor
interests
us:
"What
happens
on
the
moon
may
at
any
time
happen
to
this
earth."
Or:
That
is
just
the
teaching
of
this
department
of
Advanced
Astronomy:
That
Russell
and
Hirst
saw
the
sun
eclipsed
relatively
to
the
moon
by
a
vast
dark
body:
That
many
times
have
eclipses
occurred
relatively
to
this
earth,
by
vast,
dark
bodies:
That
there
have
been
many
eclipses
that
have
not
been
recognized
as
eclipses
by
scientific
kindergartens.
There
is
a
merger,
of
course.
We'll
take
a
look
at
it
first--that,
after
all,
it
may
have
been
a
shadow
that
Hirst
and
Russell
saw,
but
the
only
significance
is
that
the
sun
was
eclipsed
relatively
to
the
moon
by
a
cosmic
haze
of
some
kind,
or
a
swarm
of
meteors
close
together,
or
a
gaseous
discharge
left
behind
by
a
comet.
My
own
acceptance
is
that
vagueness
of
shadow
is
a
function
of
vagueness
of
intervention;
that
a
shadow
as
dense
as
the
shadow
of
this
earth
is
cast
by
a
body
denser
than
hazes
and
swarms.
The
information
seems
definite
enough
in
this
respect--"quite
as
dark
as
the
shadow
of
this
earth
during
the
eclipse
of
the
moon."
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