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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Some
of
these
flake-like
formations
were
as
large
as
a
table-top.
"The
mass
was
damp
and
smelt
disagreeably,
like
rotten
seaweed,
but,
when
dried,
the
smell
went
off."
"It
tore
fibrously,
like
paper."
Classic
explanation:
"Up
from
one
place,
and
down
in
another."
But
what
went
up,
from
one
place,
in
a
whirlwind?
Of
course,
our
Intermediatist
acceptance
is
that
had
this
been
the
strangest
substance
conceivable,
from
the
strangest
other
world
that
could
be
thought
of;
somewhere
upon
this
earth
there
must
be
a
substance
similar
to
it,
or
from
which
it
would,
at
least
subjectively,
or
according
to
description,
not
be
easily
distinguishable.
Or
that
everything
in
New
York
City
is
only
another
degree
or
aspect
of
something,
or
combination
of
things,
in
a
village
of
Central
Africa.
The
novel
is
a
challenge
to
vulgarization:
write
something
that
looks
new
to
you:
someone
will
point
out
that
the
thrice-accursed
Greeks
said
it
long
ago.
Existence
is
Appetite:
the
gnaw
of
being;
the
one
attempt
of
all
things
to
assimilate
all
other
things,
if
they
have
not
surrendered
and
submitted
to
some
higher
attempt.
It
was
cosmic
that
these
scientists,
who
had
surrendered
to
and
submitted
to
the
Scientific
System,
should,
consistently
with
the
principles
of
that
system,
attempt
to
assimilate
the
substance
that
fell
at
Memel
with
some
known
terrestrial
product.
At
the
meeting
of
the
Royal
Irish
Academy
it
was
brought
out
that
there
is
a
substance,
of
rather
rare
occurrence,
that
has
been
known
to
form
in
thin
sheets
upon
marsh
land.
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