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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
62
In
1829
(Timb's
Year
Book,
1848-235)
in
Persia
fell
a
substance
that
the
people
said
they
had
never
seen
before.
As
to
what
it
was,
they
had
not
a
notion,
but
they
saw
that
the
sheep
ate
it.
They
ground
it
into
flour
and
made
bread,
said
to
have
been
passable
enough,
though
insipid.
That
was
a
chance
that
science
did
not
neglect.
Manna
was
placed
upon
a
reasonable
basis,
or
was
assimilated
and
reconciled
with
the
system
that
had
ousted
the
older--and
less
nearly
real--system.
It
was
said
that,
likely
enough,
manna
had
fallen
in
ancient
times--because
it
was
still
falling--but
that
there
was
no
tutelary
influence
behind
it--that
it
was
a
lichen
from
the
steppes
of
Asia
Minor--from
one
place
in
a
whirlwind
and
down
in
another
place.
"In
the
American
Almanac,
1833-71,
it
is
said
that
this
substance--to
the
inhabitants
of
the
region"--was
"immediately
recognized"
by
scientists
who
examined
it:
and
that
"the
chemical
analysis
also
identified
it
as
a
lichen."
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