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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Intermediatism,
then,
is
recognition
that
our
state
is
only
a
quasi-state:
it
is
no
bar
to
one
who
desires
to
be
positive:
it
is
recognition
that
he
cannot
be
positive
and
remain
in
a
state
that
is
positive-negative.
Or
that
a
great
positivist--isolated--with
no
system
to
support
him--will
be
crucified,
or
will
starve
to
death,
or
will
be
put
in
jail
and
beaten
to
death--that
these
are
the
birth-pangs
of
translation
to
the
Positive
Absolute.
So,
though
positive-negative,
myself,
I
feel
the
attraction
of
the
positive
pole
of
our
intermediate
state,
and
attempt
to
correlate
these
three
data:
to
see
them
homogeneously;
to
think
that
they
relate
to
one
object.
In
the
aeronautic
journals
and
in
the
London
Times
there
is
no
mention
of
escaped
balloons,
in
the
summer
or
fall
of
1898.
In
the
New
York
Times
there
is
no
mention
of
ballooning
in
Canada
or
the
United
States,
in
the
summer
of
1898.
London
Times,
Sept.
29,
1885:
A
clipping
from
the
Royal
Gazette,
of
Bermuda,
of
Sept.
8,
1885,
sent
to
the
Times
by
General
Lefroy:
That,
upon
Aug.
27,
1885,
at
about
8:30
A.M.,
there
was
observed
by
Mrs.
Adelina
D.
Bassett,
"a
strange
object
in
the
clouds,
coming
from
the
north."
She
called
the
attention
of
Mrs.
L.
Lowell
to
it,
and
they
were
both
somewhat
alarmed.
However,
they
continued
to
watch
the
object
steadily
for
some
time.
It
drew
nearer.
It
was
of
triangular
shape,
and
seemed
to
be
about
the
size
of
a
pilot-boat
mainsail,
with
chains
attached
to
the
bottom
of
it.
While
crossing
the
land
it
had
appeared
to
descend,
but,
as
it
went
out
to
sea,
it
ascended,
and
continued
to
ascend,
until
it
was
lost
to
sight
high
in
the
clouds.
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