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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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A
flock
of
gorged,
heavy-weighted
buzzards,
but
far
up
and
invisible
in
the
clear
sky--
They
had
disgorged.
Prof.
Fassig
lists
the
substance,
in
his
"Bibliography,"
as
fish
spawn.
McAtee
(Monthly
Weather
Review,
May,
1918)
lists
it
as
a
jelly-like
material,
supposed
to
have
been
the
"dried"
spawn
either
of
fishes
or
of
some
batrachian.
Or
this
is
why,
against
the
seemingly
insuperable
odds
against
all
things
new,
there
can
be
what
is
called
progress--
That
nothing
is
positive,
in
the
aspects
of
homogeneity
and
unity:
If
the
whole
world
should
seem
to
combine
against
you,
it
is
only
unreal
combination,
or
intermediateness
to
unity
and
disunity.
Every
resistance
is
itself
divided
into
parts
resisting
one
another.
The
simplest
strategy
seems
to
be--never
bother
to
fight
a
thing:
set
its
own
parts
fighting
one
another.
We
are
merging
away
from
carnal
to
gelatinous
substance,
and
here
there
is
an
abundance
of
instances
or
reports
of
instances.
These
data
are
so
improper
they're
obscene
to
the
science
of
today,
but
we
shall
see
that
science,
before
it
became
so
rigorous,
was
not
so
prudish.
Chladni
was
not,
and
Greg
was
not.
I
shall
have
to
accept,
myself,
that
gelatinous
substance
has
often
fallen
from
the
sky--
Or
that,
far
up,
or
far
away,
the
whole
sky
is
gelatinous?
That
meteors
tear
through
and
detach
fragments?
That
fragments
are
brought
down
by
storms?
That
the
twinkling
of
stars
is
penetration
of
light
through
something
that
quivers?
I
think,
myself,
that
it
would
be
absurd
to
say
that
the
whole
sky
is
gelatinous:
it
seems
more
acceptable
that
only
certain
areas
are.
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