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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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There's
another
matter
in
which
the
Negative
Absolute
seems
to
work
against
us.
Though
to
super-chemistry,
we
have
introduced
the
principle
of
celestio-metathesis,
we
have
no
good
data
of
exchange
of
substances
during
proximities.
The
data
are
all
of
falls
and
not
of
upward
translations.
Of
course
upward
impulses
are
common
during
earthquakes,
but
I
haven't
a
datum
upon
a
tree
or
a
fish
or
a
brick
or
a
man
that
ever
did
go
up
and
stay
up
and
that
never
did
come
down
again.
Our
classic
of
the
horse
and
barn
occurred
in
what
was
called
a
whirlwind.
It
is
said
that,
in
an
earthquake
in
Calabria,
paving
stones
shot
up
far
in
the
air.
The
writer
doesn't
specifically
say
that
they
came
down
again,
but
something
seems
to
tell
me
they
did.
The
corpses
of
Riobamba.
Humboldt
reported
that,
in
the
quake
of
Riobamba,
"bodies
were
torn
upward
from
graves";
that
"the
vertical
motion
was
so
strong
that
bodies
were
tossed
several
hundred
feet
in
the
air."
I
explain.
I
explain
that,
if
in
the
center
of
greatest
violence
of
an
earthquake,
anything
ever
has
gone
up,
and
has
kept
on
going
up,
the
thoughts
of
the
nearest
observers
were
very
likely
upon
other
subjects.
The
quay
of
Lisbon.
We
are
told
that
it
went
down.
A
vast
throng
of
persons
ran
to
the
quay
for
refuge.
The
city
of
Lisbon
was
in
profound
darkness.
The
quay
and
all
the
people
on
it
disappeared.
If
it
and
they
went
down--not
a
single
corpse,
not
a
shred
of
clothing,
not
a
plank
of
the
quay,
nor
so
much
as
a
splinter
of
it
ever
floated
to
the
surface.
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