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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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An
object
from
which
nets
were
suspended--
Deflated
balloon,
with
its
network
hanging
from
it--
A
super-dragnet?
That
something
was
trawling
overhead?
The
birds
of
Baton
Rouge.
Mr.
Gosling
wrote
that
the
item
of
chains,
or
suggestion
of
a
basket
that
had
been
attached,
had
originated
with
Mr.
Bassett,
who
had
not
seen
the
object.
Mr.
Gosling
mentioned
a
balloon
that
had
escaped
from
Paris
in
July.
He
tells
of
a
balloon
that
fell
in
Chicago,
September
17,
or
three
weeks
later
than
the
Bermuda
object.
It's
one
incredibility
against
another,
with
disregards
and
convictions
governed
by
whichever
of
the
two
Dominants
looms
stronger
in
each
reader's
mind.
That
he
can't
think
for
himself
any
more
than
I
can
is
understood.
My
own
correlates:
I
think
that
we're
fished
for.
It
may
be
that
we're
highly
esteemed
by
super-epicures
somewhere.
It
makes
me
more
cheerful
when
I
think
that
we
may
be
of
some
use
after
all.
I
think
that
dragnets
have
often
come
down
and
have
been
mistaken
for
whirlwinds
and
waterspouts.
Some
accounts
of
seeming
structure
in
whirlwinds
and
waterspouts
are
astonishing.
And
I
have
data
that,
in
this
book,
I
can't
take
up
at
all--mysterious
disappearances.
I
think
we're
fished
for.
But
this
is
a
little
expression
on
the
side:
relates
to
trespassers;
has
nothing
to
do
with
the
subject
that
I
shall
take
up
at
some
other
time--or
our
use
to
some
other
mode
of
seeming
that
has
a
legal
right
to
us.
Nature,
33-137:
"Our
Paris
correspondent
writes
that
in
relation
to
the
balloon
which
is
said
to
have
been
seen
over
Bermuda,
in
September,
no
ascent
took
place
in
France
which
can
account
for
it."
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