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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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"There
had
been
a
storm
on
the
coast
of
Florida."
And,
unless
he
have
psycho-chemic
repulsion
for
the
explanation,
the
reader
feels
only
momentary
astonishment
that
dead
birds
from
a
storm
in
Florida
should
fall
from
an
unstormy
sky
in
Louisiana,
and
with
his
intellect
greased
like
the
plumage
of
a
wild
duck,
the
datum
then
drops
off.
Our
greasy,
shiny
brains.
That
they
may
be
of
some
use
after
all:
that
other
modes
of
existence
place
a
high
value
upon
them
as
lubricants;
that
we're
hunted
for
them;
a
hunting
expedition
to
this
earth--the
newspapers
report
a
tornado.
If
from
a
clear
sky,
or
a
sky
in
which
there
were
no
driven
clouds,
or
other
evidences
of
still-continuing
wind-power--or,
if
from
a
storm
in
Florida,
it
could
be
accepted
that
hundreds
of
birds
had
fallen
far
away,
in
Louisiana,
I
conceive,
conventionally,
of
heavier
objects
having
fallen
in
Alabama,
say,
and
of
the
fall
of
still
heavier
objects
still
nearer
the
origin
in
Florida.
The
sources
of
information
of
the
Weather
Bureau
are
widespread.
It
has
no
records
of
such
falls.
So
a
dragnet
that
was
let
down
from
above
somewhere--
Or
something
that
I
learned
from
the
more
scientific
of
the
investigators
of
psychic
phenomena:
The
reader
begins
their
works
with
prejudice
against
telepathy
and
everything
else
of
psychic
phenomena.
The
writers
deny
spirit-communication,
and
say
that
the
seeming
data
are
data
of
"only
telepathy."
Astonishing
instances
of
seeming
clairvoyance--"only
telepathy."
After
a
while
the
reader
finds
himself
agreeing
that
it's
only
telepathy--which,
at
first,
had
been
intolerable
to
him.
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