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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
361
In
the
December
number
of
the
Review
is
a
letter
from
Edward
M.
Boggs--that
the
light
was
a
reflection,
perhaps,
from
the
glare--one
light,
this
time--from
the
locomotive's
fire-box,
upon
wet
telegraph
wires--an
appearance
that
might
not
be
striated
by
the
wires,
but
consolidated
into
one
rotundity--that
it
had
seemed
to
oscillate
with
the
undulations
of
the
wires,
and
had
seemed
to
change
horizontal
distance
with
the
varying
angles
of
reflection,
and
had
seemed
to
advance
or
fall
behind,
when
the
train
had
rounded
curves.
All
of
which
is
typical
of
the
best
of
quasi-reasoning.
It
includes
and
assimilates
diverse
data:
but
it
excludes
that
which
will
destroy
it:
That,
acceptably,
the
telegraph
wires
were
alongside
the
track
beyond,
as
well
as
leading
to
Linville.
Mr.
Crotsenburg
thinks
of
"ball
lightning,"
which,
though
a
sore
bewilderment
to
most
speculation,
is
usually
supposed
to
be
a
correlate
with
the
old
system
of
thought:
but
his
awareness
of
"something
else"
is
expressed
in
other
parts
of
his
letters,
when
he
says
that
he
has
something
to
tell
that
is
"so
strange
that
I
should
never
have
mentioned
it,
even
to
my
friends,
had
it
not
been
corroborated...
so
unreal
that
I
hesitated
to
speak
of
it,
fearing
that
it
was
some
freak
of
the
imagination."
27
Vast
and
black.
The
thing
that
was
poised,
like
a
crow
over
the
moon.
Round
and
smooth.
Cannon
balls.
Things
that
have
fallen
from
the
sky
to
this
earth.
Our
slippery
brains.
Things
like
cannon
balls
have
fallen,
in
storms,
upon
this
earth.
Like
cannon
balls
are
things
that,
in
storms,
have
fallen
to
this
earth.
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