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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
322
Upon
page
244,
of
this
volume
of
Nature,
is
a
letter
from
another
correspondent,
to
the
effect
that
similar
shadows
are
cast
by
mountains
upon
clouds,
and
that
no
doubt
Mr.
Smith
was
right
in
attributing
the
appearance
to
"some
unseen
object,
which
was
intercepting
the
sun's
rays."
But
the
Old
Dominant
that
was
a
jealous
Dominant,
and
the
wrath
of
the
Old
Dominant
against
such
an
irreconcilability
as
large,
opaque
objects
in
the
sky,
casting
down
shadows
upon
clouds.
Still
the
Dominants
are
suave
very
often,
or
are
not
absolute
gods,
and
the
way
attention
was
led
away
from
this
subject
is
an
interesting
study
in
quasi-divine
bamboozlement.
Upon
page
268,
Charles
J.P.
Cave,
the
meteorologist,
writes
that,
upon
April
5
and
8,
at
Ditcham
Park,
Petersfield,
he
had
observed
a
similar
appearance,
while
watching
some
pilot
balloons--but
he
describes
something
not
in
the
least
like
a
shadow
on
clouds,
but
a
stationary
cloud--the
inference
seems
to
be
that
the
shadows
at
Chisbury
may
have
been
shadows
of
pilot
balloons.
Upon
page
322,
another
correspondent
writes
upon
shadows
cast
by
mountains;
upon
page
348
someone
else
carries
on
the
divergence
by
discussing
this
third
letter:
then
someone
takes
up
the
third
letter
mathematically;
and
then
there
is
a
correction
of
error
in
this
mathematic
demonstration--I
think
it
looks
very
much
like
what
I
think
it
looks
like.
But
the
mystery
here:
That
the
dark
patches
at
Chisbury
could
not
have
been
cast
by
stationary
pilot
balloons
that
were
to
the
west,
or
that
were
between
clouds
and
the
setting
sun.
If,
to
the
west
of
Chisbury,
a
stationary
object
were
high
in
the
air,
intercepting
the
sun's
rays,
the
shadow
of
the
stationary
object
would
not
have
been
stationary,
but
would
have
moved
higher
and
higher
with
the
setting
of
the
sun.
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