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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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The
story
of
the
kangaroo
looks
like
adaptation
to
needs
for
an
animal
that
could
spring
far,
because
marks
were
found
in
the
snow
on
roofs
of
houses.
But
so
astonishing
is
the
extent
of
snow
that
was
marked
that
after
a
while
another
kangaroo
was
added.
But
the
marks
were
in
single
lines.
My
own
acceptance
is
that
not
less
than
a
thousand
one-legged
kangaroos,
each
shod
with
a
very
small
horseshoe,
could
have
marked
that
snow
of
Devonshire.
London
Times,
Feb
16,
1855:
"Considerable
sensation
has
been
caused
in
the
towns
of
Topsham,
Lymphstone,
Exmouth,
Teignmouth,
and
Dawlish,
in
Devonshire,
in
consequence
of
the
discovery
of
a
vast
number
of
foot
tracks
of
a
most
strange
and
mysterious
description."
The
story
is
of
an
incredible
multiplicity
of
marks
discovered
in
the
morning
of
Feb.
8,
1855,
in
the
snow,
by
the
inhabitants
of
many
towns
and
regions
between
towns.
This
great
area
must
of
course
be
disregarded
by
Prof.
Owen
and
the
other
correlators.
The
tracks
were
in
all
kinds
of
unaccountable
places:
in
gardens
enclosed
by
high
walls,
and
up
on
the
tops
of
houses,
as
well
as
in
the
open
fields.
There
was
in
Lymphstone
scarcely
one
unmarked
garden.
We've
had
heroic
disregards
but
I
think
that
here
disregard
was
titanic.
And,
because
they
occurred
in
single
lines,
the
marks
are
said
to
have
been
"more
like
those
of
a
biped
than
of
a
quadruped"--as
if
a
biped
would
place
one
foot
precisely
ahead
of
another--unless
it
hopped--but
then
we
have
to
think
of
a
thousand,
or
of
thousands.
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