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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Again
and
again
this
phenomenon:
Fourteen
days
later,
at
about
the
same
place,
more
of
these
hailstones
fell.
Rivers
of
blood
that
vein
albuminous
seas,
or
an
egg-like
composition
in
the
incubation
of
which
this
earth
is
a
local
center
of
development--that
there
are
super-arteries
of
blood
in
Genesistrine:
that
sunsets
are
consciousness
of
them:
that
they
flush
the
skies
with
northern
lights
sometimes:
super-embryonic
reservoirs
from
which
life-forms
emanate--
Or
that
our
whole
solar
system
is
a
living
thing:
that
showers
of
blood
upon
this
earth
are
its
internal
hemorrhages--
Or
vast
living
things
in
the
sky,
as
there
are
vast
living
things
in
the
oceans--
Or
some
one
especial
thing:
an
especial
time:
an
especial
place.
A
thing
the
size
of
the
Brooklyn
Bridge.
It's
alive
in
outer
space--something
the
size
of
Central
Park
kills
it--
It
drips.
We
think
of
the
ice
fields
above
this
earth:
which
do
not,
themselves,
fall
to
this
earth,
but
from
which
water
does
fall--
Popular
Science
News,
35-104:
That,
according
to
Prof.
Luigi
Palazzo,
head
of
the
Italian
Meteorological
Bureau,
upon
May
15,
1890,
at
Messignadi,
Calabria,
something
the
color
of
fresh
blood
fell
from
the
sky.
This
substance
was
examined
in
the
public-health
laboratories
of
Rome.
It
was
found
to
be
blood.
"The
most
probable
explanation
of
this
terrifying
phenomenon
is
that
migratory
birds
(quails
or
swallows)
were
caught
and
torn
in
a
violent
wind."
So
the
substance
was
identified
as
birds'
blood--
What
matters
it
what
the
microscopists
of
Rome
said--or
had
to
say--and
what
matters
it
that
we
point
out
that
there
is
no
assertion
that
there
was
a
violent
wind
at
the
time--and
that
such
a
substance
would
be
almost
infinitely
dispersed
in
a
violent
wind--that
no
bird
was
said
to
have
fallen
from
the
sky--or
said
to
have
been
seen
in
the
sky--that
not
a
feather
of
a
bird
is
said
to
have
been
seen--
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