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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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So
maybe,
in
1896,
a
super-dragnet
did
not
sweep
through
this
earth's
atmosphere,
gathering
up
all
the
birds
within
its
field,
the
meshes
then
suddenly
breaking--
Or
that
the
birds
of
Baton
Rouge
were
only
from
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea--
Upon
which
we
shall
have
another
expression.
We
thought
we'd
settled
that,
and
we
thought
we'd
establish
that,
but
nothing's
ever
settled,
and
nothing's
ever
established,
in
a
real
sense,
if,
in
a
real
sense,
there
is
nothing
in
quasiness.
I
suppose
there
had
been
a
storm
somewhere,
the
storm
in
Florida,
perhaps,
and
many
birds
had
been
swept
upward
into
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea.
It
has
frigid
regions
and
it
has
tropical
regions--that
birds
of
diverse
species
had
been
swept
upward,
into
an
icy
region,
where,
huddling
together
for
warmth,
they
had
died.
Then,
later,
they
had
been
dislodged--meteor
coming
along--boat--bicycle--dragon--don't
know
what
did
come
along--something
dislodged
them.
So
leaves
of
trees,
carried
up
there
in
whirlwinds,
staying
there
years,
ages,
perhaps
only
a
few
months,
but
then
falling
to
this
earth
at
an
unseasonable
time
for
dead
leaves--fishes
carried
up
there,
some
of
them
dying
and
drying,
some
of
them
living
in
volumes
of
water
that
are
in
abundance
up
there,
or
that
fall
sometimes
in
the
deluges
that
we
call
"cloudbursts."
The
astronomers
won't
think
kindly
of
us,
and
we
haven't
done
anything
to
endear
ourselves
to
the
meteorologists--but
we're
weak
and
mawkish
Intermediatists--several
times
we've
tried
to
get
the
aeronauts
with
us--extraordinary
things
up
there:
things
that
curators
of
museums
would
give
up
all
hope
of
ever
being
fixed
stars,
to
obtain:
things
left
over
from
whirlwinds
of
the
time
of
the
Pharaohs,
perhaps:
or
that
Elijah
did
go
up
in
the
sky
in
something
like
a
chariot,
and
may
not
be
Vega,
after
all,
and
that
there
may
be
a
wheel
or
so
left
of
whatever
he
went
up
in.
We
basely
suggest
that
it
would
bring
a
high
price--but
sell
soon,
because
after
a
while
there'd
be
thousands
of
them
hawked
around--
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