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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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We
look
up
at
the
moon.
The
jet-black
moon
is
so
silvery
white.
I
have
about
fifty
notes
indicating
that
the
moon
has
atmosphere:
nevertheless
most
astronomers
hold
out
that
the
moon
has
no
atmosphere.
They
have
to:
the
theory
of
eclipses
would
not
work
out
otherwise.
So,
arguing
in
conventional
terms,
the
moon
is
black.
Rather
astonishing--explorers
upon
the
moon--stumbling
and
groping
in
intense
darkness--with
telescopes
powerful
enough,
we
could
see
them
stumbling
and
groping
in
brilliant
light.
Or,
just
because
of
familiarity,
it
is
not
now
obvious
to
us
how
the
preposterousnesses
of
the
old
system
must
have
seemed
to
the
correlates
of
the
system
preceding
it.
Ye
jet-black
silvery
moon.
Altogether,
then,
it
may
be
conceivable
that
there
are
phenomena
of
force
that
are
interpretable
as
light
as
far
down
as
the
clouds,
but
not
in
denser
strata
of
air,
or
just
the
opposite
of
familiar
interpretations.
I
now
have
some
notes
upon
an
occurrence
that
suggests
a
force
not
interpreted
by
air
as
light,
but
interpreted,
or
reflected
by
the
ground
as
light.
I
think
of
something
that,
for
a
week,
was
suspended
over
London:
of
an
emanation
that
was
not
interpreted
as
light
until
it
reached
the
ground.
Lancet,
June
1,
1867:
That
every
night
for
a
week,
a
light
had
appeared
in
Woburn
Square,
London,
upon
the
grass
of
a
small
park,
enclosed
by
railings.
Crowds
gathering--police
called
out
"for
the
special
service
of
maintaining
order
and
making
the
populace
move
on."
The
Editor
of
the
Lancet
went
to
the
Square.
He
says
that
he
saw
nothing
but
a
patch
of
light
falling
upon
an
arbor
at
the
northeast
corner
of
the
enclosure.
Seems
to
me
that
that
was
interesting
enough.
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