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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
38
As
to
opinions,
or
pronouncements,
I
should
say,
because
they
always
have
such
an
authoritative
air,
of
other
chemists,
there
is
an
analysis
in
Nature,
68-54,
giving
water
and
organic
matter
at
9.08
per
cent.
It's
that
carrying
out
of
fractions
that's
so
convincing.
The
substance
is
identified
as
sand
from
the
Sahara.
The
vastness
of
this
fall.
In
Nature,
68-65,
we
are
told
that
it
had
occurred
in
Ireland,
too.
The
Sahara,
of
course--because,
prior
to
February
19,
there
had
been
dust
storms
in
the
Sahara--disregarding
that
in
that
great
region
there's
always,
in
some
part
of
it,
a
dust
storm.
However,
just
at
present,
it
does
look
reasonable
that
dust
had
come
from
Africa,
via
the
Canaries.
The
great
difficulty
that
authoritativeness
has
to
contend
with
is
some
other
authoritativeness.
When
an
infallibility
clashes
with
a
pontification--
They
explain.
Nature,
March
5,
1903:
Another
analysis--36
per
cent
organic
matter.
Such
disagreements
don't
look
very
well,
so,
in
Nature,
68-109,
one
of
the
differing
chemists
explains.
He
says
that
his
analysis
was
of
muddy
rain,
and
the
other
was
of
sediment
of
rain--
We're
quite
ready
to
accept
excuses
from
the
most
high,
though
I
do
wonder
whether
we're
quite
so
damned
as
we
were,
if
we
find
ourselves
in
a
gracious
and
tolerant
mood
toward
the
powers
that
condemn--but
the
tax
that
now
comes
upon
our
good
manners
and
unwillingness
to
be
too
severe--
Nature,
68-223:
Another
chemist.
He
says
it
was
23.49
per
cent
water
and
organic
matter.
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