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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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However,
of
the
eighteen
instances,
the
only
one
that
I'd
bother
to
contest
is
the
profound
darkness
in
Canada
and
northern
parts
of
the
United
States,
Nov.
19,
1819--which
we
have
already
considered.
Its
concomitants:
Lights
in
the
sky;
Fall
of
a
black
substance;
Shocks
like
those
of
an
earthquake.
In
this
instance,
the
only
available
forest
fire
was
one
to
the
south
of
the
Ohio
River.
For
all
I
know,
soot
from
a
very
great
fire
south
of
the
Ohio
might
fall
in
Montreal,
Canada,
and
conceivably,
by
some
freak
of
reflection,
light
from
it
might
be
seen
in
Montreal,
but
the
earthquake
is
not
assimilable
with
a
forest
fire.
On
the
other
hand,
it
will
soon
be
our
expression
that
profound
darkness,
fall
of
matter
from
the
sky,
lights
in
the
sky,
and
earthquakes
are
phenomena
of
the
near
approach
of
other
worlds
to
this
world.
It
is
such
comprehensiveness,
as
contrasted
with
inclusion
of
a
few
factors
and
disregard
for
the
rest,
that
we
call
higher
approximation
to
realness--or
universalness.
A
darkness,
of
April
17,
1904,
at
Wimbledon,
England
(Symons'
Met.
Mag.,
39-69).
It
came
from
a
smokeless
region:
no
rain,
no
thunder;
lasted
10
minutes;
too
dark
to
go
"even
out
in
the
open."
As
to
darknesses
in
Great
Britain,
one
thinks
of
fogs--but
in
Nature,
25-289,
there
are
some
observations
by
Major
J.
Herschel,
upon
an
obscuration
in
London,
Jan.
22,
1882,
at
10:30
A.M.,
so
great
that
he
could
hear
persons
upon
the
opposite
side
of
the
street,
but
could
not
see
them--"It
was
obvious
that
there
was
no
fog
to
speak
of."
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