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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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It
was
before
1860
that
Perrey
made
his
great
compilation.
We
take
most
of
our
data
from
lists
compiled
long
ago.
Only
the
safe
and
unpainful
have
been
published
in
recent
years--at
least
in
ambitious,
voluminous
form.
The
restraining
hand
of
the
"System"--as
we
call
it,
whether
it
has
any
real
existence
or
not--is
tight
upon
the
sciences
of
today.
The
uncanniest
aspect
of
our
quasi-existence
that
I
know
of
is
that
everything
that
seems
to
have
one
identity
has
also
as
high
a
seeming
of
everything
else.
In
this
oneness
of
allness,
or
continuity,
the
protecting
hand
strangles;
the
parental
stifles;
love
is
inseparable
from
phenomena
of
hate.
There
is
only
Continuity--that
is
in
quasi-existence.
Nature,
at
least
in
its
correspondents'
columns,
still
evades
this
protective
strangulation,
and
the
Monthly
Weather
Review
is
still
a
rich
field
of
unfaithful
observation:
but,
in
looking
over
other
long-established
periodicals,
I
have
noted
their
glimmers
of
quasi-individuality
fade
gradually,
after
about
1860,
and
the
surrender
of
their
attempted
identities
to
a
higher
attempted
organization.
Some
of
them,
expressing
Intermediateness-wide
endeavor
to
localize
the
universal,
or
to
localize
self,
soul,
identity,
entity--or
positiveness
or
realness--held
out
until
as
far
as
1880;
traces
findable
up
to
1890--and
then,
expressing
the
universal
process--except
that
here
and
there
in
the
world's
history
there
may
have
been
successful
approximations
to
positiveness
by
"individuals"--who
only
then
became
individuals
and
attained
to
selves
or
souls
of
their
own--surrendered,
submitted,
became
parts
of
a
higher
organization's
attempt
to
individualize
or
systematize
into
a
complete
thing,
or
to
localize
the
universal
or
the
attributes
of
the
universal.
After
the
death
of
Richard
Proctor,
whose
occasional
illiberalities
I'd
not
like
to
emphasize
too
much,
all
succeeding
volumes
of
Knowledge
have
yielded
scarcely
an
unconventionality.
Note
the
great
number
of
times
that
the
American
Journal
of
Science
and
the
Report
of
the
British
Association
are
quoted:
note
that,
after,
say,
1885,
they're
scarcely
mentioned
in
these
inspired
but
illicit
pages--as
by
hypnosis
and
inertia,
we
keep
on
saying.
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