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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
309
L'Astronomie,
1894-194:
That,
upon
the
7th
of
April,
1894,
dried
leaves
fell
at
Clairvaux
and
Outre-Aube,
France.
The
fall
is
described
as
prodigious.
Half
an
hour.
Then,
upon
the
11th,
a
fall
of
dried
leaves
occurred
at
Pontcarre.
It
is
in
this
recurrence
that
we
found
some
of
our
opposition
to
the
conventional
explanation.
The
Editor
(Flammarion)
explains.
He
says
that
the
leaves
had
been
caught
up
in
a
cyclone
which
had
expended
its
force;
that
the
heavier
leaves
had
fallen
first.
We
think
that
that
was
all
right
for
1894,
and
that
it
was
quite
good
enough
for
1894.
But,
in
these
more
exacting
days,
we
want
to
know
how
wind-power
insufficient
to
hold
some
leaves
in
the
air
could
sustain
others
four
days.
The
factors
in
this
expression
are
unseasonableness,
not
for
dried
leaves,
but
for
prodigious
numbers
of
dried
leaves;
direct
fall,
windlessness,
month
of
April,
and
localization
in
France.
The
factor
of
localization
is
interesting.
Not
a
note
have
I
upon
fall
of
leaves
from
the
sky,
except
these
notes.
Were
the
conventional
explanation,
or
"old
correlate"
acceptable,
it
would
seem
that
similar
occurrences
in
other
regions
should
be
as
frequent
as
in
France.
The
indication
is
that
there
may
be
quasi-permanent
undulations
in
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea,
or
a
pronounced
inclination
toward
France--
Inspiration:
That
there
may
be
a
nearby
world
complementary
to
this
world,
where
autumn
occurs
at
the
time
that
is
springtime
here.
Let
some
disciple
have
that.
But
there
may
be
a
dip
toward
France,
so
that
leaves
that
are
borne
high
there,
are
more
likely
to
be
held
in
suspension
than
highflying
leaves
elsewhere.
Some
other
time
I
shall
take
up
Super-geography,
and
be
guilty
of
charts.
I
think,
now,
that
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea
is
an
oblique
belt,
with
changing
ramifications,
over
Great
Britain,
France,
Italy,
and
on
to
India.
Relatively
to
the
United
States
I
am
not
very
clear,
but
think
especially
of
the
Southern
States.
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