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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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In
this
chapter
we
are
very
intermediatistic--and
unsatisfactory.
To
the
intermediatist
there
is
but
one
answer
to
all
questions:
Sometimes
and
sometimes
not.
Another
form
of
this
intermediatist
"solution"
of
all
problems
is:
Yes
and
no.
Everything
that
is,
also
isn't.
A
positivist
attempts
to
formulate:
so
does
the
intermediatist,
but
with
less
rigorousness:
he
accepts
but
also
denies:
he
may
seem
to
accept
in
one
respect
and
deny
in
some
other
respect,
but
no
real
line
can
be
drawn
between
any
two
aspects
of
anything.
The
intermediatist
accepts
that
which
seems
to
correlate
with
something
that
he
has
accepted
as
a
dominant.
The
positivist
correlates
with
a
belief.
In
the
Dhurmsalla
meteorites
we
have
support
for
our
expression
that
things
entering
this
earth's
atmosphere
sometimes
shine
with
a
light
that
is
not
the
light
of
incandescence--or
so
we
account,
or
offer
an
expression
upon,
"thunderstones,"
or
carved
stones
that
have
fallen
luminously
to
this
earth,
in
streaks
that
have
looked
like
strokes
of
lightning--but
we
accept,
also,
that
some
things
that
have
entered
this
earth's
atmosphere,
disintegrate
with
the
intensity
of
flame
and
molten
matter--but
some
things,
we
accept,
enter
this
earth's
atmosphere
and
collapse
non-luminously,
quite
like
deep-sea
fishes
brought
to
the
surface
of
the
ocean.
Whatever
agreement
we
have
is
an
indication
that
somewhere
aloft
there
is
a
medium
denser
than
this
earth's
atmosphere.
I
suppose
our
stronghold
is
in
that
such
is
not
popular
belief--
Or
the
rhythm
of
all
phenomena:
Air
dense
at
sea
level
upon
this
earth--less
and
less
dense
as
one
ascends--then
denser
and
denser.
A
good
many
bothersome
questions
arise--
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