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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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He
"identifies"
this
matter
as
sand
from
an
African
desert--but
after
deducting
organic
matter--
But
you
and
I
could
be
"identified"
as
sand
from
an
African
desert,
after
deducting
all
there
is
to
us
except
sand--
Why
we
cannot
accept
that
this
fall
was
of
sand
from
the
Sahara,
omitting
the
obvious
objection
that
in
most
parts
the
Sahara
is
not
red
at
all,
but
is
usually
described
as
"dazzling
white"--
The
enormousness
of
it:
that
a
whirlwind
might
have
carried
it,
but
that,
in
that
case
it
would
be
no
supposititious,
or
doubtfully
identified
whirlwind,
but
the
greatest
atmospheric
cataclysm
in
the
history
of
this
earth:
Jour.
Roy.
Met.
Soc.,
30-56:
That,
up
to
the
27th
of
February,
this
fall
had
continued
in
Belgium,
Holland,
Germany
and
Austria;
that
in
some
instances
it
was
not
sand,
or
that
almost
all
the
matter
was
organic:
that
a
vessel
had
reported
the
fall
as
occurring
in
the
Atlantic
Ocean,
midway
between
Southampton
and
the
Barbados.
The
calculation
is
given
that,
in
England
alone,
10,000,000
tons
of
matter
had
fallen.
It
had
fallen
in
Switzerland
(Symons'
Met.
Mag.,
March,
1903).
It
had
fallen
in
Russia
(Bull.
Com.
Geolog.,
22-48).
Not
only
had
a
vast
quantity
of
matter
fallen
several
months
before,
in
Australia,
but
it
was
at
this
time
falling
in
Australia
(Victorian
Naturalist,
June,
1903)--enormously--red
mud--fifty
tons
per
square
mile.
The
Wessex
explanation--
Or
that
every
explanation
is
a
Wessex
explanation:
by
that
I
mean
an
attempt
to
interpret
the
enormous
in
terms
of
the
minute--but
that
nothing
can
be
finally
explained,
because
by
Truth
we
mean
the
Universal;
and
that
even
if
we
could
think
as
wide
as
Universality,
that
would
not
be
requital
to
the
cosmic
quest--which
is
not
for
Truth,
but
for
the
local
that
is
true--not
to
universalize
the
local,
but
to
localize
the
universal--or
to
give
to
a
cosmic
cloud
absolute
interpretation
in
terms
of
the
little
dusty
roads
and
lanes
of
Wessex.
I
cannot
conceive
that
this
can
be
done:
I
think
of
high
approximation.
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