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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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The
chemist
who
analyzed
the
substance
of
Pictou
sent
a
sample
to
the
Editor
of
the
Journal.
The
Editor
of
course
found
pollen
in
it.
My
own
acceptance
is
that
there'd
have
to
be
some
pollen
in
it:
that
nothing
could
very
well
fall
through
the
air,
in
June,
near
the
pine
forests
of
Nova
Scotia,
and
escape
all
floating
spores
of
pollen.
But
the
Editor
does
not
say
that
this
substance
"contained"
pollen.
He
disregards
"nitrogen,
ammonia,
and
an
animal
odor,"
and
says
that
the
substance
was
pollen.
For
the
sake
of
our
thirty
or
forty
tokens
of
liberality,
or
pseudo-liberality,
if
we
can't
be
really
liberal,
we
grant
that
the
chemist
of
the
first
examination
probably
wouldn't
know
an
animal
odor
if
he
were
janitor
of
a
menagerie.
As
we
go
along,
however,
there
can
be
no
such
sweeping
ignoring
of
this
phenomenon:
The
fall
of
animal-matter
from
the
sky.
I'd
suggest,
to
start
with,
that
we'd
put
ourselves
in
the
place
of
deep-sea
fishes:
How
would
they
account
for
the
fall
of
animal-matter
from
above?
They
wouldn't
try--
Or
it's
easy
enough
to
think
of
most
of
us
as
deep-sea
fishes
of
a
kind.
Jour.
Franklin
Inst.,
90-11:
That,
upon
the
14th
of
February,
1870,
there
fell,
at
Genoa,
Italy,
according
to
Director
Boccardo,
of
the
Technical
Institute
of
Genoa,
and
Prof.
Castellani,
a
yellow
substance.
But
the
microscope
revealed
numerous
globules
of
cobalt
blue,
also
corpuscles
of
a
pearly
color
that
resembled
starch.
See
Nature,
2-166.
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