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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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"I
am
sure
that
they
were
neither
fire
balloons,
lanterns,
nor
bonfires,
or
any
other
thing
of
that
sort,
but
bona
fide
lights
in
the
heavens."
It's
a
subject
for
which
we
shall
have
to
have
a
separate
expression--trespassers
upon
territory
to
which
something
else
has
a
legal
right--perhaps
someone
lost
a
rock,
and
he
and
his
friends
came
down
looking
for
it,
in
the
evening--or
secret
agents,
or
emissaries,
who
had
an
appointment
with
certain
esoteric
ones
near
Dhurmsalla--things
or
beings
coming
down
to
explore,
and
unable
to
stay
down
long--
In
a
way,
another
strange
occurrence
during
an
earthquake
is
suggested.
The
ancient
Chinese
tradition--the
marks
like
hoof
marks
in
the
ground.
We
have
thought--with
a
low
degree
of
acceptance--of
another
world
that
may
be
in
secret
communication
with
certain
esoteric
ones
of
this
earth's
inhabitants--and
of
messages
in
symbols
like
hoof
marks
that
are
sent
to
some
receptor,
or
special
hill,
upon
this
earth--and
of
messages
that
at
times
miscarry.
This
other
world
comes
close
to
this
world--there
are
quakes--but
advantage
of
proximity
is
taken
to
send
a
message--the
message,
designed
for
a
receptor
in
India,
perhaps,
or
in
Central
Europe,
miscarries
all
the
way
to
England--marks
like
the
marks
of
the
Chinese
tradition
are
found
upon
a
beach,
in
Cornwall,
after
an
earthquake--
Phil.
Trans.,
50-500:
After
the
quake
of
July
15,
1757,
upon
the
sands
of
Penzance,
Cornwall,
in
an
area
of
more
than
100
square
yards,
were
found
marks
like
hoof
prints,
except
that
they
were
not
crescentic.
We
feel
a
similarity,
but
note
an
arbitrary
disregard
of
our
own,
this
time.
It
seems
to
us
that
marks
described
as
"little
cones
surrounded
by
basins
of
equal
diameter"
would
be
like
hoof
prints,
if
hoofs
printed
complete
circles.
Other
disregards
are
that
there
were
black
specks
on
the
tops
of
cones,
as
if
something,
perhaps
gaseous,
had
issued
from
them;
that
from
one
of
these
formations
came
a
gush
of
water
as
thick
as
a
man's
wrist.
Of
course
the
opening
of
springs
is
common
in
earthquakes--but
we
suspect,
myself,
that
the
Negative
Absolute
is
compelling
us
to
put
in
this
datum
and
its
disorders.
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