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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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I
think,
myself,
of
a
number
of
things,
beings,
whatever
they
were,
trying
to
get
down,
but
resisted,
like
balloonists,
at
a
certain
altitude,
trying
to
get
farther
up,
but
resisted.
Not
in
the
least
except
to
good
positivists,
or
the
homogeneous-minded,
does
this
speculation
interfere
with
the
concept
of
some
other
world
that
is
in
successful
communication
with
certain
esoteric
ones
upon
this
earth,
by
a
code
of
symbols
that
print
in
rock,
like
symbols
of
telephotographers
in
selenium.
I
think
that
sometimes,
in
favorable
circumstances,
emissaries
have
come
to
this
earth--secret
meetings--
Of
course
it
sounds--
But:
Secret
meetings--emissaries--esoteric
ones
in
Europe,
before
the
war
broke
out--
And
those
who
suggested
that
such
phenomena
could
be.
However,
as
to
most
of
our
data,
I
think
of
super-things
that
have
passed
close
to
this
earth
with
no
more
interest
in
this
earth
than
have
passengers
upon
a
steamship
in
the
bottom
of
the
sea--or
passengers
may
have
a
keen
interest,
but
circumstances
of
schedules
and
commercial
requirements
forbid
investigation
of
the
bottom
of
the
sea.
Then,
on
the
other
hand,
we
may
have
data
of
super-scientific
attempts
to
investigate
phenomena
of
this
earth
from
above--perhaps
by
beings
from
so
far
away
that
they
had
never
even
heard
that
something,
somewhere,
asserts
a
legal
right
to
this
earth.
Altogether,
we're
good
intermediatists,
but
we
can't
be
very
good
hypnotists.
Still
another
source
of
the
merging
away
of
our
data:
That,
upon
general
principles
of
Continuity,
if
super-vessels,
or
super-vehicles,
have
traversed
this
earth's
atmosphere,
there
must
be
mergers
between
them
and
terrestrial
phenomena:
observations
upon
them
must
merge
away
into
observations
upon
clouds
and
balloons
and
meteors.
We
shall
begin
with
data
that
we
cannot
distinguish
ourselves
and
work
our
way
out
of
mergers
into
extremes.
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