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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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I
have
industriously
sought
data
for
an
expression
upon
birds,
but
the
prospecting
has
not
been
very
quasi-satisfactory.
I
think
I
rather
emphasize
our
industriousness,
because
a
charge
likely
to
be
brought
against
the
attitude
of
Acceptance
is
that
one
who
only
accepts
must
be
one
of
languid
interest
and
little
application
of
energy.
It
doesn't
seem
to
work
out:
we
are
very
industrious.
I
suggest
to
some
of
our
disciples
that
they
look
into
the
matter
of
messages
upon
pigeons,
of
course
attributed
to
earthly
owners,
but
said
to
be
undecipherable.
I'd
do
it,
ourselves,
only
that
would
be
selfish.
That's
more
of
the
Intermediatism
that
will
keep
us
out
of
the
firmament:
Positivism
is
absolute
egoism.
But
look
back
in
the
time
of
Andree's
Polar
Expedition.
Pigeons
that
would
have
no
publicity
ordinarily,
were
often
reported
at
that
time.
In
the
Zoologist,
3-18-21,
is
recorded
an
instance
of
a
bird
(puffin)
that
had
fallen
to
the
ground
with
a
fractured
head.
Interesting,
but
mere
speculation--but
what
solid
object,
high
in
the
air,
had
that
bird
struck
against?
Tremendous
red
rain
in
France,
Oct.
16
and
17,
1846;
great
storm
at
the
time,
and
red
rain
supposed
to
have
been
colored
by
matter
swept
up
from
this
earth's
surface,
and
then
precipitated
(Comptes
Rendus,
23-832).
But
in
Comptes
Rendus,
24-625,
the
description
of
this
red
rain
differs
from
one's
impression
of
red,
sandy
or
muddy
water.
It
is
said
that
this
rain
was
so
vividly
red
and
so
blood-like
that
many
persons
in
France
were
terrified.
Two
analyses
are
given
(Comptes
Rendus,
24-812).
One
chemist
notes
a
great
quantity
of
corpuscles--whether
blood-like
corpuscles
or
not--in
the
matter.
The
other
chemist
sets
down
organic
matter
at
35
per
cent.
It
may
be
that
an
inter-planetary
dragon
had
been
slain
somewhere,
or
that
this
red
fluid,
in
which
were
many
corpuscles,
came
from
something
not
altogether
pleasant
to
contemplate,
about
the
size
of
the
Catskill
Mountains,
perhaps--but
the
present
datum
is
that
with
this
substance,
larks,
quail,
ducks,
and
water
hens,
some
of
them
alive,
fell
at
Lyons
and
Grenoble
and
other
places.
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