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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Some
day
we
shall
have
an
expression
which
will
be,
to
our
advanced
primitiveness,
a
great
joy:
That
devils
have
visited
this
earth:
foreign
devils:
human-like
beings,
with
pointed
beards:
good
singers;
one
shoe
ill-fitting--but
with
sulphurous
exhalations,
at
any
rate.
I
have
been
impressed
with
the
frequent
occurrence
of
sulphurousness
with
things
that
come
from
the
sky.
A
fall
of
jagged
pieces
of
ice,
Orkney,
July
24,
1818
(Trans.
Roy.
Soc.
Edin.,
9-187).
They
had
a
strong
sulphurous
odor.
And
the
coke--or
the
substance
that
looked
like
coke--that
fell
at
Mortree,
France,
April
24,
1887:
with
it
fell
a
sulphurous
substance.
The
enormous
round
things
that
rose
from
the
ocean,
near
the
Victoria.
Whether
we
still
accept
that
they
were
super-constructions
that
had
come
from
a
denser
atmosphere
and,
in
danger
of
disruption,
had
plunged
into
the
ocean
for
relief,
then
rising
and
continuing
on
their
way
to
Jupiter
or
Uranus--it
was
reported
that
they
spread
a
"stench
of
sulphur."
At
any
rate,
this
datum
of
proximity
is
against
the
conventional
explanation
that
these
things
did
not
rise
from
the
ocean,
but
rose
far
away
above
the
horizon,
with
illusion
of
nearness.
And
the
things
that
were
seen
in
the
sky
July,
1898:
I
have
another
note.
In
Nature,
58-224,
a
correspondent
writes
that,
upon
July
1,
1898,
at
Sedberg,
he
had
seen
in
the
sky--a
red
object--or,
in
his
own
wording,
something
that
looked
like
the
red
part
of
a
rainbow,
about
10
degrees
long.
But
the
sky
was
dark
at
the
time.
The
sun
had
set.
A
heavy
rain
was
falling.
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