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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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I
conceive
of
one
inter-continuous
nexus,
which
expresses
itself
in
astronomic
phenomena,
and
chemic,
biologic,
psychic,
sociologic:
that
it
is
everywhere
striving
to
localize
positiveness:
that
to
this
attempt
in
various
fields
of
phenomena--which
are
only
quasi-different--we
give
different
names.
We
speak
of
the
"system"
of
the
planets,
and
not
of
their
"government":
but
in
considering
a
store,
for
instance,
and
its
management,
we
see
that
the
words
are
interchangeable.
It
used
to
be
customary
to
speak
of
chemic
equilibrium,
but
not
of
social
equilibrium:
that
false
demarcation
has
been
broken
down.
We
shall
see
that
by
all
these
words
we
mean
the
same
state.
As
every-day
conveniences,
or
in
terms
of
common
illusions,
of
course,
they
are
not
synonyms.
To
a
child
an
earth
worm
is
not
an
animal.
It
is
to
the
biologist.
By
"beauty,"
I
mean
that
which
seems
complete.
Obversely,
that
the
incomplete,
or
the
mutilated,
is
the
ugly.
Venus
de
Milo.
To
a
child
she
is
ugly.
When
a
mind
adjusts
to
thinking
of
her
as
a
completeness,
even
though,
by
physiologic
standards,
incomplete,
she
is
beautiful.
A
hand
thought
of
only
as
a
hand,
may
seem
beautiful.
Found
on
a
battlefield--obviously
a
part--not
beautiful.
But
everything
in
our
experience
is
only
a
part
of
something
else
that
in
turn
is
only
a
part
of
still
something
else--or
that
there
is
nothing
beautiful
in
our
experience:
only
appearances
that
are
intermediate
to
beauty
and
ugliness--that
only
universality
is
complete:
that
only
the
complete
is
the
beautiful:
that
every
attempt
to
achieve
beauty
is
an
attempt
to
give
to
the
local
the
attribute
of
the
universal.
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