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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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By
stability,
we
mean
the
immovable
and
the
unaffected.
But
all
seeming
things
are
only
reactions
to
something
else.
Stability,
too,
then,
can
be
only
the
universal,
or
that
besides
which
there
is
nothing
else.
Though
some
things
seem
to
have--or
have--higher
approximations
to
stability
than
have
others,
there
are,
in
our
experience,
only
various
degrees
of
intermediateness
to
stability
and
instability.
Every
man,
then,
who
works
for
stability
under
its
various
names
of
"permanency,"
"survival,"
"duration,"
is
striving
to
localize
in
something
the
state
that
is
realizable
only
in
the
universal.
By
independence,
entity,
and
individuality,
I
can
mean
only
that
besides
which
there
is
nothing
else,
if
given
only
two
things,
they
must
be
continuous
and
mutually
affective,
if
everything
is
only
a
reaction
to
something
else,
and
any
two
things
would
be
destructive
of
each
other's
independence,
entity,
or
individuality.
All
attempted
organizations
and
systems
and
consistencies,
some
approximating
far
higher
than
others,
but
all
only
intermediate
to
Order
and
Disorder,
fail
eventually
because
of
their
relations
with
outside
forces.
All
are
attempted
completenesses.
If
to
all
local
phenomena
there
are
always
outside
forces,
these
attempts,
too,
are
realizable
only
in
the
state
of
completeness,
or
that
to
which
there
are
no
outside
forces.
Or
that
all
these
words
are
synonyms,
all
meaning
the
state
that
we
call
the
positive
state--
That
our
whole
"existence"
is
a
striving
for
the
positive
state.
The
amazing
paradox
of
it
all:
That
all
things
are
trying
to
become
the
universal
by
excluding
other
things.
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