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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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In
Continuity,
it
is
impossible
to
distinguish
phenomena
at
their
merging-points,
so
we
look
for
them
at
their
extremes.
Impossible
to
distinguish
between
animal
and
vegetable
in
some
infusoria--but
hippopotamus
and
violet.
For
all
practical
purposes
they're
distinguishable
enough.
No
one
but
a
Barnum
or
a
Bailey
would
send
one
a
bunch
of
hippopotami
as
a
token
of
regard.
So
away
from
the
great
manufacturing
centers:
Black
rain
in
Switzerland,
Jan.
20,
1911.
Switzerland
is
so
remote,
and
so
ill
at
ease
is
the
conventional
explanation
here,
that
Nature,
85-451,
says
of
this
rain
that
in
certain
conditions
of
weather,
snow
may
take
on
an
appearance
of
blackness
that
is
quite
deceptive.
May
be
so.
Or
at
night,
if
dark
enough,
snow
may
look
black.
This
is
simply
denying
that
a
black
rain
fell
in
Switzerland,
Jan.
20,
1911.
Extreme
remoteness
from
great
manufacturing
centers:
La
Nature,
1888,
2-406:
That
Aug.
14,
1888,
there
fell
at
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope,
a
rain
so
black
as
to
be
described
as
a
"shower
of
ink."
Continuity
dogs
us.
Continuity
rules
us
and
pulls
us
back.
We
seemed
to
have
a
little
hope
that
by
the
method
of
extremes
we
could
get
away
from
things
that
merge
indistinguishably
into
other
things.
We
find
that
every
departure
from
one
merger
is
entrance
upon
another.
At
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope,
vast
volumes
of
smoke
from
great
manufacturing
centers,
as
an
explanation,
cannot
very
acceptably
merge
with
the
explanation
of
extra-mundane
origin--but
smoke
from
a
terrestrial
volcano
can,
and
that
is
the
suggestion
that
is
made
in
La
Nature.
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