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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
79
Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
1841-40:
That,
March
24,
1840--during
a
thunderstorm--at
Rajkit,
India,
occurred
a
fall
of
grain.
It
was
reported
by
Col.
Sykes,
of
the
British
Association.
The
natives
were
greatly
excited--because
it
was
grain
of
a
kind
unknown
to
them.
Usually
comes
forward
a
scientist
who
knows
more
of
the
things
that
natives
know
best
than
the
natives
know--but
it
so
happens
that
the
usual
thing
was
not
done
definitely
in
this
instance:
"The
grain
was
shown
to
some
botanists,
who
did
not
immediately
recognize
it,
but
thought
it
to
be
either
a
spartium
or
a
vicia."
6
Lead,
silver,
diamonds,
glass.
They
sound
like
the
accursed,
but
they're
not:
they're
now
of
the
chosen--that
is,
when
they
occur
in
metallic
or
stony
masses
that
Science
has
recognized
as
meteorites.
We
find
that
resistance
is
to
substances
not
so
mixed
in
or
incorporated.
Of
accursed
data,
it
seems
to
me
that
punk
is
pretty
damnable.
In
the
Report
of
the
British
Association,
1878-376,
there
is
mention
of
a
light
chocolate-brown
substance
that
has
fallen
with
meteorites.
No
particulars
given;
not
another
mention
anywhere
else
that
I
can
find.
In
this
English
publication,
the
word
"punk"
is
not
used;
the
substance
is
called
"amadou."
I
suppose,
if
the
datum
has
anywhere
been
admitted
to
French
publications,
the
word
"amadou"
has
been
avoided,
and
"punk"
used.
Or
oneness
of
allness:
scientific
works
and
social
registers:
a
Goldstein
who
can't
get
in
as
Goldstein,
gets
in
as
Jackson.
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