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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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That
this
is
the
quest;
but
that
it
has
never
been
attained;
but
that
Science
has
acted,
ruled,
pronounced,
and
condemned
as
if
it
had
been
attained.
What
is
a
house?
It
is
not
possible
to
say
what
anything
is,
as
positively
distinguished
from
anything
else,
if
there
are
no
positive
differences.
A
barn
is
a
house,
if
one
lives
in
it.
If
residence
constitutes
houseness,
because
style
of
architecture
does
not,
then
a
bird's
nest
is
a
house:
and
human
occupancy
is
not
the
standard
to
judge
by,
because
we
speak
of
dogs'
houses;
nor
material,
because
we
speak
of
snow
houses
of
Eskimos--or
a
shell
is
a
house
to
a
hermit
crab--or
was
to
the
mollusk
that
made
it--or
things
seemingly
so
positively
different
as
the
White
House
at
Washington
and
a
shell
on
the
seashore
are
seen
to
be
continuous.
So
no
one
has
ever
been
able
to
say
what
electricity
is,
for
instance.
It
isn't
anything,
as
positively
distinguished
from
heat
or
magnetism
or
life.
Metaphysicians
and
theologians
and
biologists
have
tried
to
define
life.
They
have
failed,
because,
in
a
positive
sense,
there
is
nothing
to
define:
there
is
no
phenomenon
of
life
that
is
not,
to
some
degree,
manifest
in
chemism,
magnetism,
astronomic
motions.
White
coral
islands
in
a
dark
blue
sea.
Their
seeming
of
distinctness:
the
seeming
of
individuality,
or
of
positive
difference
one
from
another--but
all
are
only
projections
from
the
same
sea
bottom.
The
difference
between
sea
and
land
is
not
positive.
In
all
water
there
is
some
earth:
in
all
earth
there
is
some
water.
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