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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
365
Throughout
this
book,
the
datum
that
we
are
most
impressed
with:
Successive
falls.
Or
that,
if
upon
one
small
area,
things
fall
from
the
sky,
and
then,
later,
fall
again
upon
the
same
small
area,
they
are
not
products
of
a
whirlwind,
which
though
sometimes
axially
stationary,
discharges
tangentially--
So
the
frogs
that
fell
at
Wigan.
I
have
looked
that
matter
up
again.
Later
more
frogs
fell.
As
to
our
data
of
gelatinous
substance
said
to
have
fallen
to
this
earth
with
meteorites,
it
is
our
expression
that
meteorites,
tearing
through
the
shaky,
protoplasmic
seas
of
Genesistrine--against
which
we
warn
aviators,
or
they
may
find
themselves
suffocating
in
a
reservoir
of
life,
or
stuck
like
currants
in
a
blanc
mange--that
meteorites
detach
gelatinous,
or
protoplasmic,
lumps
that
fall
with
them.
Now
the
element
of
positiveness
in
our
composition
yearns
for
the
appearance
of
completeness.
Super-geographical
lakes
with
fishes
in
them.
Meteorites
that
plunge
through
these
lakes,
on
their
way
to
this
earth.
The
positiveness
in
our
make-up
must
have
expression
in
at
least
one
record
of
a
meteorite
that
has
brought
down
a
lot
of
fishes
with
it--
Nature,
3-512:
That,
near
the
bank
of
a
river,
in
Peru,
Feb.
4,
1871,
a
meteorite
fell.
"On
the
spot,
it
is
reported,
several
dead
fishes
were
found,
of
different
species."
The
attempt
to
correlate
is--that
the
fishes
"are
supposed
to
have
been
lifted
out
of
the
river
and
dashed
against
the
stones."
Whether
this
be
imaginable
or
not
depends
upon
each
one's
own
hypnoses.
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