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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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He
does
find
a
squall--but
it
had
occurred
upon
April
3rd.
Flammarion's
two
incredibilities
are--that
leaves
could
remain
a
week
in
the
air:
that
they
could
stay
together
a
week
in
the
air.
Think
of
some
of
your
own
observations
upon
papers
thrown
from
an
aeroplane.
Our
one
incredibility:
That
these
leaves
had
been
whirled
up
six
months
before,
when
they
were
common
on
the
ground,
and
had
been
sustained,
of
course
not
in
the
air,
but
in
a
region
gravitationally
inert;
and
had
been
precipitated
by
the
disturbances
of
April
rains.
I
have
no
records
of
leaves
that
have
so
fallen
from
the
sky
in
October
or
November,
the
season
when
one
might
expect
dead
leaves
to
be
raised
from
one
place
and
precipitated
somewhere
else.
I
emphasize
that
this
occurred
in
April.
La
Nature,
1889-2-94:
That,
upon
April
19,
1889,
dried
leaves,
of
different
species,
oak,
elm,
etc.,
fell
from
the
sky.
This
day,
too,
was
a
calm
day.
The
fall
was
tremendous.
The
leaves
were
seen
to
fall
fifteen
minutes,
but,
judging
from
the
quantity
on
the
ground,
it
is
the
writer's
opinion
that
they
had
already
been
falling
half
an
hour.
I
think
that
the
geyser
of
corpses
that
sprang
from
Riobamba
toward
the
sky
must
have
been
an
interesting
sight.
If
I
were
a
painter,
I'd
like
that
subject.
But
this
cataract
of
dried
leaves,
too,
is
a
study
in
the
rhythms
of
the
dead.
In
this
datum,
the
point
most
agreeable
to
us
is
the
very
point
that
the
writer
in
La
Nature
emphasizes.
Windlessness.
He
says
that
the
surface
of
the
Loire
was
"absolutely
smooth."
The
river
was
strewn
with
leaves
as
far
as
he
could
see.
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