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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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"Lee
Fore
Brace.
"P.S.--The
wheels
advanced
along
with
the
ship
for
about
twenty
minutes.--L.F.B."
Knowledge,
Jan.
11,
1884:
Letter
from
"A.
Mc.
D.":
That
"Lee
Fore
Brace,"
"who
sees
'so
many
meteorological
phenomena
in
your
excellent
paper,'
should
have
signed
himself
'The
Modern
Ezekiel,'
for
his
vision
of
wheels
is
quite
as
wonderful
as
the
prophet's."
The
writer
then
takes
up
the
measurements
that
were
given,
and
calculates
a
velocity
at
the
circumference
of
a
wheel,
of
about
166
yards
per
second,
apparently
considering
that
especially
incredible.
He
then
says:
"From
the
nom
de
plume
he
assumes,
it
might
be
inferred
that
your
correspondent
is
in
the
habit
of
'sailing
close
to
the
wind.'"
He
asks
permission
to
suggest
an
explanation
of
his
own.
It
is
that
before
11:30
P.M.
there
had
been
numerous
accidents
to
the
"main
brace,"
and
that
it
had
required
splicing
so
often
that
almost
any
ray
of
light
would
have
taken
on
a
rotary
motion.
In
Knowledge,
Jan.
25,
1884,
Mr.
"Brace"
answers
and
signs
himself
"J.W.
Robertson":
"I
don't
suppose
A.
Mc.
D.
means
any
harm,
but
I
do
think
it's
rather
unjust
to
say
a
man
is
drunk
because
he
sees
something
out
of
the
common.
If
there's
one
thing
I
pride
myself
upon,
it's
being
able
to
say
that
never
in
my
life
have
I
indulged
in
anything
stronger
than
water."
From
this
curiosity
of
pride,
he
goes
on
to
say
that
he
had
not
intended
to
be
exact,
but
to
give
his
impressions
of
dimensions
and
velocity.
He
ends
amiably:
"However,
'no
offense
taken,
where
I
suppose
none
is
meant.'"
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