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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
81
In
Science,
March
9,
1888,
we
read
of
a
block
of
limestone,
said
to
have
fallen
near
Middleburg,
Florida.
It
was
exhibited
at
the
Sub-tropical
Exposition,
at
Jacksonville.
The
writer,
in
Science,
denies
that
it
fell
from
the
sky.
His
reasoning
is:
There
is
no
limestone
in
the
sky;
Therefore
this
limestone
did
not
fall
from
the
sky.
Better
reasoning
I
cannot
conceive
of--because
we
see
that
a
final
major
premise--universal--true--would
include
all
things:
that,
then,
would
leave
nothing
to
reason
about--so
then
that
all
reasoning
must
be
based
upon
"something"
not
universal,
or
only
a
phantom
intermediate
to
the
two
finalities
of
nothingness
and
allness,
or
negativeness
and
positiveness.
La
Nature,
1890-2-127:
Fall,
at
Pel-et-Der
(L'Aube),
France,
June
6,
1890,
of
limestone
pebbles.
Identified
with
limestone
at
Chateau-Landon--or
up
and
down
in
a
whirlwind.
But
they
fell
with
hail--which,
in
June,
could
not
very
well
be
identified
with
ice
from
Chateau-Landon.
Coincidence,
perhaps.
Upon
page
70,
Science
Gossip,
1887,
the
Editor
says,
of
a
stone
that
was
reported
to
have
fallen
at
Little
Lever,
England,
that
a
sample
had
been
sent
to
him.
It
was
sandstone.
Therefore
it
had
not
fallen,
but
had
been
on
the
ground
in
the
first
place.
But,
upon
page
140,
Science
Gossip,
1887,
is
an
account
of
"a
large,
smooth,
water-worn,
gritty
sandstone
pebble"
that
had
been
found
in
the
wood
of
a
full-grown
beech
tree.
Looks
to
me
as
if
it
had
fallen
red-hot,
and
had
penetrated
the
tree
with
high
velocity.
But
I
have
never
heard
of
anything
falling
red-hot
from
a
whirlwind--
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