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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Or
that
around
something
coming
from
the
intense
cold
of
inter-planetary
space--that
is
of
some
regions:
our
own
suspicion
is
that
other
regions
are
tropical--the
moisture
of
this
earth's
atmosphere
would
condense
into
a
cloud-like
appearance
around
it.
In
Nature,
20-121,
there
is
an
account
by
Mr.
S.W.
Clifton,
Collector
of
Customs,
at
Freemantle,
Western
Australia,
sent
to
the
Melbourne
Observatory--a
clear
day--appearance
of
a
small
black
cloud,
moving
not
very
swiftly--bursting
into
a
ball
of
fire,
of
the
apparent
size
of
the
moon--
Or
that
something
with
the
velocity
of
an
ordinary
meteorite
could
not
collect
vapor
around
it,
but
that
slower-moving
objects--speed
of
a
railway
train,
say--may.
The
clouds
of
tornadoes
have
so
often
been
described
as
if
they
were
solid
objects
that
I
now
accept
that
sometimes
they
are:
that
some
so-called
tornadoes
are
objects
hurtling
through
this
earth's
atmosphere,
not
only
generating
disturbances
by
their
suctions,
but
crushing,
with
their
bulk,
all
things
in
their
way,
rising
and
falling
and
finally
disappearing,
demonstrating
that
gravitation
is
not
the
power
that
the
primitives
think
it
is,
if
an
object
moving
at
relatively
low
velocity
be
not
pulled
to
this
earth,
or
being
so
momentarily
affected,
bounds
away.
In
Finley's
Reports
on
the
Character
of
600
Tornadoes
very
suggestive
bits
of
description
occur:
"Cloud
bounded
along
the
earth
like
a
ball"--
Or
that
it
was
no
meteorological
phenomenon,
but
something
very
much
like
a
huge
solid
ball
that
was
bounding
along,
crushing
and
carrying
with
it
everything
within
its
field--
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