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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Or
the
pathos
of
it,
perhaps;
or
the
dull
and
uninspired,
but
courageous
persistence
of
the
scientific:
everything
seemingly
found
out
is
doomed
to
be
subverted--by
more
powerful
microscopes
and
telescopes;
by
more
refined,
precise,
searching
means
and
methods--the
new
pronouncements
irrepressibly
bobbing
up;
their
reception
always
as
Truth
at
last;
always
the
illusion
of
the
final;
very
little
of
the
Intermediatist
spirit--
That
the
new
that
has
displaced
the
old
will
itself
some
day
be
displaced;
that
it,
too,
will
be
recognized
as
myth-stuff--
But
that
if
phantoms
climb,
spooks
of
ladders
are
good
enough
for
them.
Annual
Register,
1821-681:
That,
according
to
a
report
by
M.
Laine,
French
Consul
at
Pernambuco,
early
in
October,
1821,
there
was
a
shower
of
a
substance
resembling
silk.
The
quantity
was
as
tremendous
as
might
be
a
whole
cargo,
lost
somewhere
between
Jupiter
and
Mars,
having
drifted
around
perhaps
for
centuries,
the
original
fabrics
slowly
disintegrating.
In
Annales
de
Chimie,
2-15-427,
it
is
said
that
samples
of
this
substance
were
sent
to
France
by
M.
Laine,
and
that
they
proved
to
have
some
resemblances
to
silky
filaments
which,
at
certain
times
of
the
year,
are
carried
by
the
wind
near
Paris.
In
the
Annals
of
Philosophy,
n.s.,
12-93,
there
is
mention
of
a
fibrous
substance
like
blue
silk
that
fell
near
Naumberg,
March
23,
1665.
According
to
Chladni
(Annales
de
Chimie,
2-31-264),
the
quantity
was
great.
He
places
a
question
mark
before
the
date.
One
of
the
advantages
of
Intermediatism
is
that,
in
the
oneness
of
quasiness,
there
can
be
no
mixed
metaphors.
Whatever
is
acceptable
of
anything,
is,
in
some
degree
or
aspect,
acceptable
of
everything.
So
it
is
quite
proper
to
speak,
for
instance,
of
something
that
is
as
firm
as
a
rock
and
that
sails
in
a
majestic
march.
The
Irish
are
good
monists:
they
have
of
course
been
laughed
at
for
their
keener
perceptions.
So
it's
a
book
we're
writing,
or
it's
a
procession,
or
it's
a
museum,
with
the
Chamber
of
Horrors
rather
over-emphasized.
A
rather
horrible
correlation
occurs
in
the
Scientific
American,
1859-178.
What
interests
us
is
that
a
correspondent
saw
a
silky
substance
fall
from
the
sky--there
was
an
aurora
borealis
at
the
time--he
attributes
the
substance
to
the
aurora.
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