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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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So
then
that
all
seeming
things
are
not
things
at
all,
if
all
are
inter-continuous,
any
more
than
is
the
leg
of
a
table
a
thing
in
itself,
if
it
is
only
a
projection
from
something
else:
that
not
one
of
us
is
a
real
person,
if,
physically,
we're
continuous
with
environment;
if,
psychically,
there
is
nothing
to
us
but
expression
of
relation
to
environment.
Our
general
expression
has
two
aspects:
Conventional
monism,
or
that
all
"things"
that
seem
to
have
identity
of
their
own
are
only
islands
that
are
projections
from
something
underlying,
and
have
no
real
outlines
of
their
own.
But
that
all
"things,"
though
only
projections,
are
projections
that
are
striving
to
break
away
from
the
underlying
that
denies
them
identity
of
their
own.
I
conceive
of
one
inter-continuous
nexus,
in
which
and
of
which
all
seeming
things
are
only
different
expressions,
but
in
which
all
things
are
localizations
of
one
attempt
to
break
away
and
become
real
things,
or
to
establish
entity
or
positive
difference
or
final
demarcation
or
unmodified
independence--or
personality
or
soul,
as
it
is
called
in
human
phenomena--
That
anything
that
tries
to
establish
itself
as
a
real,
or
positive,
or
absolute
system,
government,
organization,
self,
soul,
entity,
individuality,
can
so
attempt
only
by
drawing
a
line
about
itself,
or
about
the
inclusions
that
constitute
itself,
and
damning
or
excluding,
or
breaking
away
from,
all
other
"things":
That,
if
it
does
not
so
act,
it
cannot
seem
to
be;
That,
if
it
does
so
act,
it
falsely
and
arbitrarily
and
futilely
and
disastrously
acts,
just
as
would
one
who
draws
a
circle
in
the
sea,
including
a
few
waves,
saying
that
the
other
waves,
with
which
the
included
are
continuous,
are
positively
different,
and
stakes
his
life
upon
maintaining
that
the
admitted
and
the
damned
are
positively
different.
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