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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
85
Sometimes
cannon
balls
are
found
embedded
in
trees.
Doesn't
seem
to
be
anything
to
discuss;
doesn't
seem
discussable
that
any
one
would
cut
a
hole
in
a
tree
and
hide
a
cannon
ball,
which
one
could
take
to
bed,
and
hide
under
one's
pillow,
just
as
easily.
So
with
the
stone
of
Battersea
Fields.
What
is
there
to
say,
except
that
it
fell
with
high
velocity
and
embedded
in
the
tree?
Nevertheless,
there
was
a
great
deal
of
discussion--
Because,
at
the
foot
of
the
tree,
as
if
broken
off
the
stone,
fragments
of
slag
were
found.
I
have
nine
other
instances.
Slag
and
cinders
and
ashes,
and
you
won't
believe,
and
neither
will
I,
that
they
came
from
the
furnaces
of
vast
aerial
super-constructions.
We'll
see
what
looks
acceptable.
As
to
ashes,
the
difficulties
are
great,
because
we'd
expect
many
falls
of
terrestrially
derived
ashes--volcanoes
and
forest
fires.
In
some
of
our
acceptances,
I
have
felt
a
little
radical--
I
suppose
that
one
of
our
main
motives
is
to
show
that
there
is,
in
quasi-existence,
nothing
but
the
preposterous--or
something
intermediate
to
absolute
preposterousness
and
final
reasonableness--that
the
new
is
the
obviously
preposterous;
that
it
becomes
the
established
and
disguisedly
preposterous;
that
it
is
displaced,
after
a
while,
and
is
again
seen
to
be
the
preposterous.
Or
that
all
progress
is
from
the
outrageous
to
the
academic
or
sanctified,
and
back
to
the
outrageous--modified,
however,
by
a
trend
of
higher
and
higher
approximation
to
the
impreposterous.
Sometimes
I
feel
a
little
more
uninspired
than
at
other
times,
but
I
think
we're
pretty
well
accustomed
now
to
the
oneness
of
allness;
or
that
the
methods
of
science
in
maintaining
its
system
are
as
outrageous
as
the
attempts
of
the
damned
to
break
in.
In
the
Annual
Record
of
Science,
1875-241,
Prof.
Daubree
is
quoted:
that
ashes
that
had
fallen
in
the
Azores
had
come
from
the
Chicago
fire--
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