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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
363
Of
course:
That
they
looked
like
"vegetable
cells."
A
note:
That
nine
days
before
had
fallen
the
red
substance--flesh--whatever
it
may
have
been--of
Bath
County,
Kentucky.
I
think
that
a
super-egotist,
vast,
but
not
so
vast
as
it
had
supposed,
had
refused
to
move
to
one
side
for
a
comet.
We
summarize
our
general
super-geographical
expressions:
Gelatinous
regions,
sulphurous
regions,
frigid
and
tropical
regions:
a
region
that
has
been
Source
of
Life
relatively
to
this
earth:
regions
wherein
there
is
density
so
great
that
things
from
them,
entering
this
earth's
thin
atmosphere,
explode.
We
have
had
a
datum
of
explosive
hailstones.
We
now
have
support
to
the
acceptance
that
they
had
been
formed
in
a
medium
far
denser
than
air
of
this
earth
at
sea-level.
In
the
Popular
Science
News,
22-38,
is
an
account
of
ice
that
had
been
formed,
under
great
pressure,
in
the
laboratory
of
the
University
of
Virginia.
When
released
and
brought
into
contact
with
ordinary
air,
this
ice
exploded.
And
again
the
flesh-like
substance
that
fell
in
Kentucky:
its
flake-like
formation.
Here
is
a
phenomenon
that
is
familiar
to
us:
it
suggests
flattening,
under
pressure.
But
the
extraordinary
inference
is--pressure
not
equal
on
all
sides.
In
the
Annual
Record
of
Science,
1873-350,
it
is
said
that,
in
1873,
after
a
heavy
thunderstorm
in
Louisiana,
a
tremendous
number
of
fish
scales
were
found,
for
a
distance
of
forty
miles,
along
the
banks
of
the
Mississippi
River:
bushels
of
them
picked
up
in
single
places:
large
scales
that
were
said
to
be
of
the
gar
fish,
a
fish
that
weighs
from
five
to
fifty
pounds.
It
seems
impossible
to
accept
this
identification:
one
thinks
of
a
substance
that
had
been
pressed
into
flakes
or
scales.
And
round
hailstones
with
wide
thin
margins
of
ice
irregularly
around
them--still,
such
hailstones
seem
to
me
more
like
things
that
had
been
stationary:
had
been
held
in
a
field
of
thin
ice.
In
the
Illustrated
London
News,
34-546,
are
drawings
of
hailstones
so
margined,
as
if
they
had
been
held
in
a
sheet
of
ice.
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