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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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To
this
letter
Mr.
Proctor
adds
a
note,
apologizing
for
the
publication
of
"A.
Mc.
D's."
letter,
which
had
come
about
by
a
misunderstood
instruction.
Then
Mr.
Proctor
wrote
disagreeable
letters,
himself,
about
other
persons--what
else
would
you
expect
in
a
quasi-existence?
The
obvious
explanation
of
this
phenomenon
is
that,
under
the
surface
of
the
sea,
in
the
Persian
Gulf,
was
a
vast
luminous
wheel:
that
it
was
the
light
from
its
submerged
spokes
that
Mr.
Robertson
saw,
shining
upward.
It
seems
clear
that
this
light
did
shine
upward
from
origin
below
the
surface
of
the
sea.
But
at
first
it
is
not
so
clear
how
vast
luminous
wheels,
each
the
size
of
a
village,
ever
got
under
the
surface
of
the
Persian
Gulf:
also
there
may
be
some
misunderstanding
as
to
what
they
were
doing
there.
A
deep-sea
fish,
and
its
adaptation
to
a
dense
medium--
That,
at
least
in
some
regions
aloft,
there
is
a
medium
dense
even
to
gelatinousness--
A
deep-sea
fish,
brought
to
the
surface
of
the
ocean:
in
a
relatively
attenuated
medium,
it
disintegrates--
Super-constructions
adapted
to
a
dense
medium
in
inter-planetary
space--sometimes,
by
stresses
of
various
kinds,
they
are
driven
into
this
earth's
thin
atmosphere--
Later
we
shall
have
data
to
support
just
this:
that
things
entering
this
earth's
atmosphere
disintegrate
and
shine
with
a
light
that
is
not
the
light
of
incandescence:
shine
brilliantly,
even
if
cold--
Vast
wheel-like
super-constructions--they
enter
this
earth's
atmosphere,
and,
threatened
with
disintegration,
plunge
for
relief
into
an
ocean,
or
into
a
denser
medium.
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