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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Our
attitude:
Here
are
the
data:
Luminous
rains
sometimes
fall
(Nature,
March
9,
1882;
Nature,
25-437).
This
is
light
that
is
not
the
light
of
incandescence,
but
no
one
can
say
that
these
occasional,
or
rare,
rains
come
from
this
earth's
externality.
We
simply
note
cold
light
of
falling
bodies.
For
luminous
rain,
snow,
and
dust,
see
Hartwig,
Aerial
World,
p.
319.
As
to
luminous
clouds,
we
have
more
nearly
definite
observations
and
opinions:
they
mark
transition
between
the
Old
Dominant
and
the
New
Dominant.
We
have
already
noted
the
transition
in
Prof.
Schwedoffs
theory
of
external
origin
of
some
hailstones--and
the
implications
that,
to
a
former
generation,
seemed
so
preposterous--"droll"
was
the
word--that
there
are
in
inter-planetary
regions
volumes
of
water--whether
they
have
fishes
and
frogs
in
them
or
not.
Now
our
acceptance
is
that
clouds
sometimes
come
from
external
regions,
having
had
origin
from
super-geographical
lakes
and
oceans
that
we
shall
not
attempt
to
chart,
just
at
present--only
suggesting
to
enterprising
aviators--and
we
note
that
we
put
it
all
up
to
them,
and
show
no
inclination
to
go
Columbusing
on
our
own
account--that
they
take
bathing
suits,
or,
rather,
deep-sea
diving-suits
along.
So
then
that
some
clouds
come
from
inter-planetary
oceans--of
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea--if
we
still
accept
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea--and
shine,
upon
entering
this
earth's
atmosphere.
In
Himmel
und
Erde,
February,
1889--a
phenomenon
of
transition
of
thirty
years
ago--Herr
O.
Jesse,
in
his
observations
upon
luminous
night-clouds,
notes
the
great
height
of
them,
and
drolly
or
sensibly
suggests
that
some
of
them
may
have
come
from
regions
external
to
this
earth.
I
suppose
he
means
only
from
other
planets.
But
it's
a
very
droll
and
sensible
idea
either
way.
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