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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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We
shall
have
an
outcry
of
silences.
If
a
single
instance
of
anything
be
disregarded
by
a
System--our
own
attitude
is
that
a
single
instance
is
a
powerless
thing.
Of
course
our
own
method
of
agreement
of
many
instances
is
not
a
real
method.
In
Continuity,
all
things
must
have
resemblances
with
all
other
things.
Anything
has
any
quasi-identity
you
please.
Some
time
ago
conscription
was
assimilated
with
either
autocracy
or
democracy
with
equal
facility.
Note
the
need
for
a
dominant
to
correlate
to.
Scarcely
anybody
said
simply
that
we
must
have
conscription:
but
that
we
must
have
conscription,
which
correlates
with
democracy,
which
was
taken
as
a
base,
or
something
basically
desirable.
Of
course
between
autocracy
and
democracy
nothing
but
false
demarcation
can
be
drawn.
So
I
can
conceive
of
no
subject
upon
which
there
should
be
such
poverty
as
a
single
instance,
if
anything
one
pleases
can
be
whipped
into
line.
However,
we
shall
try
to
be
more
nearly
real
than
the
Darwinites
who
advance
concealing
coloration
as
Darwinism,
and
then
drag
in
proclaiming
luminosity,
too,
as
Darwinism.
I
think
the
Darwinites
had
better
come
in
with
us
as
to
the
deep-sea
fishes--and
be
sorry
later,
I
suppose.
It
will
be
amazing
or
negligible
to
read
all
the
instances
now
to
come
of
things
that
have
been
seen
in
the
sky,
and
to
think
that
all
have
been
disregarded.
My
own
opinion
is
that
it
is
not
possible,
or
very
easy,
to
disregard
them,
now
that
they
have
been
brought
together--but
that,
if
prior
to
about
this
time
we
had
attempted
such
an
assemblage,
the
Old
Dominant
would
have
withered
our
typewriter--as
it
is
the
letter
"e"
has
gone
back
on
us,
and
the
"s"
is
temperamental.
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