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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
316
Nature,
58-294:
That,
upon
July
8,
1898,
a
correspondent
had
seen,
at
Kiel,
an
object
in
the
sky,
colored
red
by
the
sun,
which
had
set.
It
was
about
as
broad
as
a
rainbow,
and
about
twelve
degrees
high.
"It
remained
in
its
original
brightness
about
five
minutes,
and
then
faded
rapidly,
and
then
remained
almost
stationary
again,
finally
disappearing
about
eight
minutes
after
I
first
saw
it."
In
an
intermediate
existence,
we
quasi-persons
have
nothing
to
judge
by
because
everything
is
its
own
opposite.
If
a
hundred
dollars
a
week
be
a
standard
of
luxurious
living
to
some
persons,
it
is
poverty
to
others.
We
have
instances
of
three
objects
that
were
seen
in
the
sky
in
a
space
of
three
months,
and
this
concurrence
seems
to
me
to
be
something
to
judge
by.
Science
has
been
built
upon
concurrence:
so
have
been
most
of
the
fallacies
and
fanaticisms.
I
feel
the
positivism
of
a
Leverrier,
or
instinctively
take
to
the
notion
that
all
three
of
these
observations
relate
to
the
same
object.
However,
I
don't
formulate
them
and
predict
the
next
transit.
Here's
another
chance
for
me
to
become
a
fixed
star--but
as
usual--oh,
well--
A
point
in
Intermediatism:
That
the
Intermediatist
is
likely
to
be
a
flaccid
compromiser.
Our
own
attitude:
Ours
is
a
partly
positive
and
partly
negative
state,
or
a
state
in
which
nothing
is
finally
positive
or
finally
negative--
But,
if
positivism
attract
you,
go
ahead
and
try:
you
will
be
in
harmony
with
cosmic
endeavor--but
Continuity
will
resist
you.
Only
to
have
appearance
in
quasiness
is
to
be
proportionately
positive,
but
beyond
a
degree
of
attempted
positivism,
Continuity
will
rise
to
pull
you
back.
Success,
as
it
is
called--though
there
is
only
success-failure
in
Intermediateness--will,
in
Intermediateness,
be
yours
proportionately
as
you
are
in
adjustment
with
its
own
state,
or
some
positivism
mixed
with
compromise
and
retreat.
To
be
very
positive
is
to
be
a
Napoleon
Bonaparte,
against
whom
the
rest
of
civilization
will
sooner
or
later
combine.
For
interesting
data,
see
newspaper
accounts
of
fate
of
one
Dowie,
of
Chicago.
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