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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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This
equalization
of
eminences
permits
us
to
project
with
our
own
expression,
which,
otherwise,
would
be
subdued
into
invisibility:
That
it's
too
bad
that
no
one
ever
looked
to
see--hieroglyphics?--something
written
upon
these
sheets
of
paper?
If
we
have
no
very
great
variety
of
substances
that
have
fallen
to
this
earth;
if,
upon
this
earth's
surface
there
is
infinite
variety
of
substances
detachable
by
whirlwinds,
two
falls
of
such
a
rare
substance
as
marsh
paper
would
be
remarkable.
A
writer
in
the
Edinburgh
Review,
87-194,
says
that,
at
the
time
of
writing,
he
had
before
him
a
portion
of
a
sheet
of
200
square
feet,
of
a
substance
that
had
fallen
at
Carolath,
Silesia,
in
1839--exactly
similar
to
cotton-felt,
of
which
clothing
might
have
been
made.
The
god
Microscopic
Examination
had
spoken.
The
substance
consisted
chiefly
of
conifervae.
Jour.
Asiatic
Soc.
of
Bengal,
1847-pt.
1-193:
That
March
16,
1846--about
the
time
of
a
fall
of
edible
substance
in
Asia
Minor--an
olive-gray
powder
fell
at
Shanghai.
Under
the
microscope,
it
was
seen
to
be
an
aggregation
of
hairs
of
two
kinds,
black
ones
and
rather
thick
white
ones.
They
were
supposed
to
be
mineral
fibers,
but,
when
burned,
they
gave
out
"the
common
ammoniacal
smell
and
smoke
of
burnt
hair
or
feathers."
The
writer
described
the
phenomenon
as
"a
cloud
of
3800
square
miles
of
fibers,
alkali,
and
sand."
In
a
postscript,
he
says
that
other
investigators,
with
more
powerful
microscopes,
gave
opinion
that
the
fibers
were
not
hairs;
that
the
substance
consisted
chiefly
of
conifervae.
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