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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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I
have
tabulated
all
the
data
of
this
book,
and
a
great
deal
besides--card
system--and
several
proximities,
thus
emphasized,
have
been
revelations
to
me:
nevertheless,
it
is
only
the
method
of
theologians
and
scientists--worst
of
all,
of
statisticians.
For
instance,
by
the
statistic
method,
I
could
"prove"
that
a
black
rain
has
fallen
"regularly"
every
seven
months,
somewhere
upon
this
earth.
To
do
this,
I'd
have
to
include
red
rains
and
yellow
rains,
but,
conventionally,
I'd
pick
out
the
black
particles
in
red
substances
and
in
yellow
substances,
and
disregard
the
rest.
Then,
too,
if
here
and
there
a
black
rain
should
be
a
week
early
or
a
month
late--that
would
be
"acceleration"
or
"retardation."
This
is
supposed
to
be
legitimate
in
working
out
the
periodicities
of
comets.
If
black
rains,
or
red
or
yellow
rains
with
black
particles
in
them,
should
not
appear
at
all
near
some
dates--we
have
not
read
Darwin
in
vain--"the
records
are
not
complete."
As
to
other,
interfering
black
rains,
they'd
be
either
gray
or
brown,
or
for
them
we'd
find
other
periodicities.
Still,
I
have
had
to
notice
the
year
1819,
for
instance.
I
shall
not
note
them
all
in
this
book,
but
I
have
records
of
31
extraordinary
events
in
1883.
Someone
should
write
a
book
upon
the
phenomena
of
this
one
year--that
is,
if
books
should
be
written.
1849
is
notable
for
extraordinary
falls,
so
far
apart
that
a
local
explanation
seems
inadequate--not
only
the
black
rain
of
Ireland,
May,
1849,
but
a
red
rain
in
Sicily
and
a
red
rain
in
Wales.
Also,
it
is
said
(Timb's
Year
Book,
1850-241)
that,
upon
April
18
or
20,
1849,
shepherds
near
Mt.
Ararat,
found
a
substance
that
was
not
indigenous,
upon
areas
measuring
8
to
10
miles
in
circumference.
Presumably
it
had
fallen
there.
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