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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Red
rains.
Orthodoxy:
Sand
blown
by
the
sirocco,
from
the
Sahara
to
Europe.
Especially
in
the
earthquake
regions
of
Europe,
there
have
been
many
falls
of
red
substance,
usually,
but
not
always,
precipitated
in
rain.
Upon
many
occasions,
these
substances
have
been
"absolutely
identified"
as
sand
from
the
Sahara.
When
I
first
took
this
matter
up,
I
came
across
assurance
after
assurance,
so
positive
to
this
effect,
that,
had
I
not
been
an
Intermediatist,
I'd
have
looked
no
further.
Samples
collected
from
a
rain
at
Genoa--samples
of
sand
forwarded
from
the
Sahara--"absolute
agreement"
some
writers
said:
same
color,
same
particles
of
quartz,
even
the
same
shells
of
diatoms
mixed
in.
Then
the
chemical
analyses:
not
a
disagreement
worth
mentioning.
Our
intermediatist
means
of
expression
will
be
that,
with
proper
exclusions,
after
the
scientific
or
theological
method,
anything
can
be
identified
with
anything
else,
if
all
things
are
only
different
expressions
of
an
underlying
oneness.
To
many
minds
there's
rest
and
there's
satisfaction
in
that
expression
"absolutely
identified."
Absoluteness,
or
the
illusion
of
it--the
universal
quest.
If
chemists
have
identified
substances
that
have
fallen
in
Europe
as
sand
from
African
deserts,
swept
up
in
African
whirlwinds,
that's
assuasive
to
all
the
irritations
that
occur
to
those
cloistered
minds
that
must
repose
in
the
concept
of
a
snug,
isolated,
little
world,
free
from
contact
with
cosmic
wickednesses,
safe
from
stellar
guile,
undisturbed
by
inter-planetary
prowlings
and
invasions.
The
only
trouble
is
that
a
chemist's
analysis,
which
seems
so
final
and
authoritative
to
some
minds,
is
no
more
nearly
absolute
than
is
identification
by
a
child
or
description
by
an
imbecile--
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