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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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That,
upon
the
evening
of
August
13,
1819,
a
light
was
seen
in
Amherst--a
falling
object--sound
as
if
of
an
explosion.
In
the
home
of
Prof.
Dewey,
this
light
was
reflected
upon
a
wall
of
a
room
in
which
were
several
members
of
Prof.
Dewey's
family.
The
next
morning,
in
Prof.
Dewey's
front
yard,
in
what
is
said
to
have
been
the
only
position
from
which
the
light
that
had
been
seen
in
the
room,
the
night
before,
could
have
been
reflected,
was
found
a
substance
"unlike
anything
before
observed
by
anyone
who
saw
it."
It
was
a
bowl-shaped
object,
about
8
inches
in
diameter,
and
one
inch
thick.
Bright
buff-colored,
and
having
upon
it
a
"fine
nap."
Upon
removing
this
covering,
a
buff-colored,
pulpy
substance
of
the
consistency
of
soft-soap,
was
found--"of
an
offensive,
suffocating
smell."
A
few
minutes
of
exposure
to
the
air
changed
the
buff
color
to
"a
livid
color
resembling
venous
blood."
It
absorbed
moisture
quickly
from
the
air
and
liquefied.
For
some
of
the
chemic
reactions,
see
the
Journal.
There's
another
lost
quasi-soul
of
a
datum
that
seems
to
me
to
belong
here:
London
Times,
April
19,
1836:
Fall
of
fish
that
had
occurred
in
the
neighborhood
of
Allahabad,
India.
It
is
said
that
the
fish
were
of
the
chalwa
species,
about
a
span
in
length
and
a
seer
in
weight--you
know.
They
were
dead
and
dry.
Or
they
had
been
such
a
long
time
out
of
water
that
we
can't
accept
that
they
had
been
scooped
out
of
a
pond,
by
a
whirlwind--even
though
they
were
so
definitely
identified
as
of
a
known
local
species--
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