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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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But
concomitants
of
this
fall:
Loud
noises
were
heard
in
the
sky.
Stones
fell
from
the
sky.
According
to
Chladni,
these
concomitants
occurred,
and
to
me
they
seem--rather
brutal?--or
not
associable
with
something
so
soft
and
gentle
as
a
fall
of
pollen?
Black
rains
and
black
snows--rains
as
black
as
a
deluge
of
ink--jet-black
snowflakes.
Such
a
rain
as
that
which
fell
in
Ireland,
May
14,
1849,
described
in
the
Annals
of
Scientific
Discovery,
1850,
and
the
Annual
Register,
1849.
It
fell
upon
a
district
of
400
square
miles,
and
was
the
color
of
ink,
and
of
a
fetid
odor
and
very
disagreeable
taste.
The
rain
at
Castlecommon,
Ireland,
April
30,
1887--"thick,
black
rain."
(Amer.
Met.
Jour.,
4-193.)
A
black
rain
fell
in
Ireland,
Oct.
8
and
9,
1907.
(Symons'
Met.
Mag.
43-2.)
"It
left
a
most
peculiar
and
disagreeable
smell
in
the
air."
The
orthodox
explanation
of
this
rain
occurs
in
Nature,
March
2,
1908--cloud
of
soot
that
had
come
from
South
Wales,
crossing
the
Irish
Channel
and
all
of
Ireland.
So
the
black
rain
of
Ireland,
of
March,
1898:
ascribed
in
Symons'
Met.
Mag.
33-40,
to
clouds
of
soot
from
the
manufacturing
towns
of
North
England
and
South
Scotland.
Our
Intermediatist
principle
of
pseudo-logic,
or
our
principle
of
Continuity
is,
of
course,
that
nothing
is
unique,
or
individual:
that
all
phenomena
merge
away
into
all
other
phenomena:
that,
for
instance--suppose
there
should
be
vast
celestial
super-oceanic,
or
inter-planetary
vessels
that
come
near
this
earth
and
discharge
volumes
of
smoke
at
times.
We're
only
supposing
such
a
thing
as
that
now,
because,
conventionally,
we
are
beginning
modestly
and
tentatively.
But
if
it
were
so,
there
would
necessarily
be
some
phenomenon
upon
this
earth,
with
which
that
phenomenon
would
merge.
Extra-mundane
smoke
and
smoke
from
cities
merge,
or
both
would
manifest
in
black
precipitations
in
rain.
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