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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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They
have
done
well.
They
have
functioned.
But
now
they're
negatives,
or
they're
out
of
harmony--
If
we
are
in
harmony
with
a
new
dominant,
or
the
spirit
of
a
new
era,
in
which
Exclusionism
must
be
overthrown;
if
we
have
data
of
many
obscurations
that
have
occurred,
not
only
upon
the
moon,
but
upon
our
own
earth,
as
convincing
of
vast
intervening
bodies,
usually
invisible,
as
is
any
regularized,
predicted
eclipse.
One
looks
up
at
the
sky.
It
seems
incredible
that,
say,
at
the
distance
of
the
moon,
there
could
be,
but
be
invisible,
a
solid
body,
say,
the
size
of
the
moon.
One
looks
up
at
the
moon,
at
a
time
when
only
a
crescent
of
it
is
visible.
The
tendency
is
to
build
up
the
rest
of
it
in
one's
mind;
but
the
unillumined
part
looks
as
vacant
as
the
rest
of
the
sky,
and
it's
of
the
same
blueness
as
the
rest
of
the
sky.
There's
a
vast
area
of
solid
substance
before
one's
eyes.
It's
indistinguishable
from
the
sky.
In
some
of
our
little
lessons
upon
the
beauties
of
modesty
and
humility,
we
have
picked
out
basic
arrogances--tail
of
a
peacock,
horns
of
a
stag,
dollars
of
a
capitalist--eclipses
of
astronomers.
Though
I
have
no
desire
for
the
job,
I'd
engage
to
list
hundreds
of
instances
in
which
the
report
upon
an
expected
eclipse
has
been
"sky
overcast"
or
"weather
unfavorable."
In
our
Super-Hibernia,
the
unfavorable
has
been
construed
as
the
favorable.
Some
time
ago,
when
we
were
lost,
because
we
had
not
recognized
our
own
dominant,
when
we
were
still
of
the
unchosen
and
likely
to
be
more
malicious
than
we
now
are--because
we
have
noted
a
steady
tolerance
creeping
into
our
attitude--if
astronomers
are
not
to
blame,
but
are
only
correlates
to
a
dominant--we
advertised
a
predicted
eclipse
that
did
not
occur
at
all.
Now,
without
any
especial
feeling,
except
that
of
recognition
of
the
fate
of
all
attempted
absolutism,
we
give
the
instance,
noting
that,
though
such
an
evil
thing
to
orthodoxy,
it
was
orthodoxy
that
recorded
the
non-event.
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