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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Objects
upon
a
ship's
bottom.
From
time
to
time
they
drop
to
the
bottom
of
the
ocean.
The
ship
does
not.
Or,
like
our
acceptance
upon
dripping
from
aerial
ice-fields,
we
think
of
only
a
part
of
a
nearby
world
succumbing,
except
in
being
caught
in
suspension,
to
this
earth's
gravitation,
and
surface-materials
falling
from
that
part--
Explain
or
express
or
accept,
and
what
does
it
matter?
Our
attitude
is:
Here
are
the
data.
See
for
yourself.
What
does
it
matter
what
my
notions
may
be?
Here
are
the
data.
But
think
for
yourself,
or
think
for
myself,
all
mixed
up
we
must
be.
A
long
time
must
go
by
before
we
can
know
Florida
from
Long
Island.
So
we've
had
data
of
fishes
that
have
fallen
from
our
now
established
and
respectabilized
Super-Sargasso
Sea--which
we've
almost
forgotten,
it's
now
so
respectable--but
we
shall
have
data
of
fishes
that
have
fallen
during
earthquakes.
These
we
accept
were
dragged
down
from
ponds
or
other
worlds
that
have
been
quaked,
when
only
a
few
miles
away,
by
this
earth,
some
other
world
also
quaking
this
earth.
In
a
way,
or
in
its
principle,
our
subject
is
orthodox
enough.
Only
grant
proximity
of
other
worlds--which,
however,
will
not
be
a
matter
of
granting,
but
will
be
a
matter
of
data--and
one
conventionally
conceives
of
their
surfaces
quaked--even
of
a
whole
lake
full
of
fishes
being
quaked
and
dragged
down
from
one
of
them.
The
lake
full
of
fishes
may
cause
a
little
pain
to
some
minds,
but
the
fall
of
sand
and
stones
is
pleasantly
enough
thought
of.
More
scientific
persons,
or
more
faithful
hypnotics
than
we,
have
taken
up
this
subject,
unpainfully,
relatively
to
the
moon.
For
instance,
Perrey
has
gone
over
15,000
records
of
earthquakes,
and
he
has
correlated
many
with
proximities
of
the
moon,
or
has
attributed
many
to
the
pull
of
the
moon
when
nearest
this
earth.
Also
there
is
a
paper
upon
this
subject
in
the
Proc.
Roy.
Soc.
of
Cornwall,
1845.
Or,
theoretically,
when
at
its
closest
to
this
earth,
the
moon
quakes
the
face
of
this
earth,
and
is
itself
quaked--but
does
not
itself
fall
to
this
earth.
As
to
showers
of
matter
that
may
have
come
from
the
moon
at
such
times--one
can
go
over
old
records
and
find
what
one
pleases.
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