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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
296
Feb.
16,
1861.
An
earthquake
at
Singapore.
Then
came
an
extraordinary
downpour
of
rain--or
as
much
water
as
any
good-sized
lake
would
consist
of.
For
three
days
this
rain
or
this
fall
of
water
came
down
in
torrents.
In
pools
on
the
ground,
formed
by
this
deluge,
great
numbers
of
fishes
were
found.
The
writer
says
that
he
had,
himself,
seen
nothing
but
water
fall
from
the
sky.
Whether
I'm
emphasizing
what
a
deluge
it
was
or
not,
he
says
that
so
terrific
had
been
the
downpour
that
he
had
not
been
able
to
see
three
steps
away
from
him.
The
natives
said
that
the
fishes
had
fallen
from
the
sky.
Three
days
later
the
pools
dried
up
and
many
dead
fishes
were
found,
but,
in
the
first
place--though
that's
an
expression
for
which
we
have
an
instinctive
dislike--the
fishes
had
been
active
and
uninjured.
Then
follows
material
for
another
of
our
little
studies
in
the
phenomena
of
disregard.
A
psycho-tropism
here
is
mechanically
to
take
pen
in
hand
and
mechanically
write
that
fishes
found
on
the
ground
after
a
heavy
rainfall
came
from
overflowing
streams.
The
writer
of
the
account
says
that
some
of
the
fishes
had
been
found
in
his
courtyard,
which
was
surrounded
by
high
walls--paying
no
attention
to
this,
a
correspondent
(La
Science
Pour
Tous,
6-317)
explains
that
in
the
heavy
rain
a
body
of
water
had
probably
overflowed,
carrying
fishes
with
it.
We
are
told
by
the
first
writer
that
these
fishes
of
Singapore
were
of
a
species
that
was
very
abundant
near
Singapore.
So
I
think,
myself,
that
a
whole
lakeful
of
them
had
been
shaken
down
from
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea,
under
the
circumstances
we
have
thought
of.
However,
if
appearance
of
strange
fishes
after
an
earthquake
be
more
pleasing
in
the
sight,
or
to
the
nostrils,
of
the
New
Dominant,
we
faithfully
and
piously
supply
that
incense--An
account
of
the
occurrence
at
Singapore
was
read
by
M.
de
Castelnau,
before
the
French
Academy.
M.
de
Castelnau
recalled
that,
upon
a
former
occasion,
he
had
submitted
to
the
Academy
the
circumstance
that
fishes
of
a
new
species
had
appeared
at
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope,
after
an
earthquake.
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