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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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The
great
difficulty
is
to
explain
segregation
in
these
showers--
But
deep-sea
fishes
and
occasional
falls,
down
to
them,
of
edible
substances;
bags
of
grain,
barrels
of
sugar;
things
that
had
not
been
whirled
up
from
one
part
of
the
ocean-bottom,
in
storms
or
submarine
disturbances,
and
dropped
somewhere
else--
I
suppose
one
thinks--but
grain
in
bags
never
has
fallen--
Object
of
Amherst--its
covering
like
"milled
cloth"--
Or
barrels
of
corn
lost
from
a
vessel
would
not
sink--but
a
host
of
them
clashing
together,
after
a
wreck--they
burst
open;
the
corn
sinks,
or
does
when
saturated;
the
barrel
staves
float
longer--
If
there
be
not
an
overhead
traffic
in
commodities
similar
to
our
own
commodities
carried
over
this
earth's
oceans--I'm
not
the
deep-sea
fish
I
think
I
am.
I
have
no
data
other
than
the
mere
suggestion
of
the
Amherst
object
of
bags
or
barrels,
but
my
notion
is
that
bags
and
barrels
from
a
wreck
on
one
of
this
earth's
oceans,
would,
by
the
time
they
reached
the
bottom,
no
longer
be
recognizable
as
bags
or
barrels;
that,
if
we
can
have
data
of
the
fall
of
fibrous
material
that
may
have
been
cloth
or
paper
or
wood,
we
shall
be
satisfactory
and
grotesque
enough.
Proc.
Roy.
Irish
Acad.,
1-379:
"In
the
year
1686,
some
workmen,
who
had
been
fetching
water
from
a
pond,
seven
German
miles
from
Memel,
on
returning
to
their
work
after
dinner
(during
which
there
had
been
a
snowstorm)
found
the
flat
ground
around
the
pond
covered
with
a
coal-black,
leafy
mass;
and
a
person
who
lived
near
said
he
had
seen
it
fall
like
flakes
with
the
snow."
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