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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Visitors.
Our
confusion
here,
out
of
which
we
are
attempting
to
make
quasi-order,
is
as
great
as
it
has
been
throughout
this
book,
because
we
have
not
the
positivist's
delusion
of
homogeneity.
A
positivist
would
gather
all
data
that
seem
to
relate
to
one
kind
of
visitors
and
coldly
disregard
all
other
data.
I
think
of
as
many
different
kinds
of
visitors
to
this
earth
as
there
are
visitors
to
New
York,
to
a
jail,
to
a
church--some
persons
go
to
church
to
pick
pockets,
for
instance.
My
own
acceptance
is
that
either
a
world
or
a
vast
super-construction--or
a
world,
if
red
substances
and
fishes
fell
from
it--hovered
over
India
in
the
summer
of
1860.
Something
then
fell
from
somewhere,
July
17,
1860,
at
Dhurmsalla.
Whatever
"it"
was,
"it"
is
so
persistently
alluded
to
as
"a
meteorite"
that
I
look
back
and
see
that
I
adopted
this
convention
myself.
But
in
the
London
Times,
Dec.
26,
1860,
Syed
Abdoolah,
Professor
of
Hindustani,
University
College,
London,
writes
that
he
had
sent
to
a
friend
in
Dhurmsalla,
for
an
account
of
the
stones
that
had
fallen
at
that
place.
The
answer:
"...
divers
forms
and
sizes,
many
of
which
bore
great
resemblance
to
ordinary
cannon
balls
just
discharged
from
engines
of
war."
It's
an
addition
to
our
data
of
spherical
objects
that
have
arrived
upon
this
earth.
Note
that
they
are
spherical
stone
objects.
And,
in
the
evening
of
this
same
day
that
something--took
a
shot
at
Dhurmsalla--or
sent
objects
upon
which
there
may
be
decipherable
markings--lights
were
seen
in
the
air--
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
