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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
67
Some
flakes
of
marsh-paper
were
exhibited.
Their
composition
was
chiefly
of
conifervae.
This
was
a
double
inclusion:
or
it's
the
method
of
agreement
that
logicians
make
so
much
of.
So
no
logician
would
be
satisfied
with
identifying
a
peanut
as
a
camel,
because
both
have
humps:
he
demands
accessory
agreement--that
both
can
live
a
long
time
without
water,
for
instance.
Now,
it's
not
so
very
unreasonable,
at
least
to
the
free
and
easy
vaudeville
standards
that,
throughout
this
book,
we
are
considering,
to
think
that
a
green
substance
could
be
snatched
up
from
one
place
in
a
whirlwind,
and
fall
as
a
black
substance
somewhere
else:
but
the
royal
Irishmen
excluded
something
else,
and
it
is
a
datum
that
was
as
accessible
to
them
as
it
is
to
me:
That,
according
to
Chladni,
this
was
no
little,
local
deposition
that
was
seen
to
occur
by
some
indefinite
person
living
near
a
pond
somewhere.
It
was
a
tremendous
fall
from
a
vast
sky-area.
Likely
enough
all
the
marsh
paper
in
the
world
could
not
have
supplied
it.
At
the
same
time,
this
substance
was
falling
"in
great
quantities,"
in
Norway
and
Pomerania.
Or
see
Kirkwood,
Meteoric
Astronomy,
p.
66:
"Substance
like
charred
paper
fell
in
Norway
and
other
parts
of
northern
Europe,
Jan.
31,
1686."
Or
a
whirlwind,
with
a
distribution
as
wide
as
that,
would
not
acceptably,
I
should
say,
have
so
specialized
in
the
rare
substance
called
"marsh
paper."
There'd
have
been
falls
of
fence
rails,
roofs
of
houses,
parts
of
trees.
Nothing
is
said
of
the
occurrence
of
a
tornado
in
northern
Europe,
in
January,
1686.
There
is
record
only
of
this
one
substance
having
fallen
in
various
places.
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