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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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It
seems
proper,
and
it
will
give
luster
to
the
new
orthodoxy,
now
to
have
an
instance
in
which,
not
merely
quake
and
fall
of
rocks
or
meteorites,
or
quake
and
either
eclipse
or
luminous
appearances
in
the
sky
have
occurred,
but
in
which
are
combined
all
the
phenomena,
one
or
more
of
which,
when
accompanying
earthquake,
indicate,
in
our
acceptance,
the
proximity
of
another
world.
This
time
a
longer
duration
is
indicated
than
in
other
instances.
In
the
Canadian
Institute
Proceedings,
2-7-198,
there
is
an
account,
by
the
Deputy
Commissioner
at
Dhurmsalla,
of
the
extraordinary
Dhurmsalla
meteorite--coated
with
ice.
But
the
combination
of
events
related
by
him
is
still
more
extraordinary:
That
within
a
few
months
of
the
fall
of
this
meteorite
there
had
been
a
fall
of
live
fishes
at
Benares,
a
shower
of
red
substance
at
Furruckabad,
a
dark
spot
observed
on
the
disk
of
the
sun,
an
earthquake,
"an
unnatural
darkness
of
some
duration,"
and
a
luminous
appearance
in
the
sky
that
looked
like
an
aurora
borealis--
But
there's
more
to
this
climax:
We
are
introduced
to
a
new
order
of
phenomena:
Visitors.
The
Deputy
Commissioner
writes
that,
in
the
evening,
after
the
fall
of
the
Dhurmsalla
meteorite,
or
mass
of
stone
covered
with
ice,
he
saw
lights.
Some
of
them
were
not
very
high.
They
appeared
and
went
out
and
reappeared.
I
have
read
many
accounts
of
the
Dhurmsalla
meteorite--July
28,
1860--but
never
in
any
other
of
them
a
mention
of
this
new
correlate--something
as
out
of
place
in
the
nineteenth
century
as
would
have
been
an
aeroplane--the
invention
of
which
would
not,
in
our
acceptance,
have
been
permitted,
in
the
nineteenth
century,
though
adumbrations
to
it
were
permitted.
This
writer
says
that
the
lights
moved
like
fire
balloons,
but:
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