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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Or
the
damned
and
the
saved,
and
there's
little
to
choose
between
them;
and
angels
are
beings
that
have
not
obviously
barbed
tails
to
them--or
never
have
such
bad
manners
as
to
stroke
an
angel
below
the
waist-line.
However
this
especial
outrage
was
challenged:
the
Editor
of
the
Record
returns
to
it,
in
the
issue
of
1876:
considers
it
"in
the
highest
degree
improper
to
say
that
the
ashes
of
Chicago
were
landed
in
the
Azores."
Bull.
Soc.
Astro.
de
France,
22-245:
Account
of
a
white
substance,
like
ashes,
that
fell
at
Annoy,
France,
March
27,
1908:
simply
called
a
curious
phenomenon;
no
attempt
to
trace
to
a
terrestrial
source.
Flake
formations,
which
may
signify
passage
through
a
region
of
pressure,
are
common;
but
spherical
formations--as
if
of
things
that
have
rolled
and
rolled
along
planar
regions
somewhere--are
commoner:
Nature,
Jan.
10,
1884,
quotes
a
Kimberley
newspaper:
That,
toward
the
close
of
November,
1883,
a
thick
shower
of
ashy
matter
fell
at
Queenstown,
South
Africa.
The
matter
was
in
marble-sized
balls,
which
were
soft
and
pulpy,
but
which,
upon
drying,
crumbled
at
touch.
The
shower
was
confined
to
one
narrow
streak
of
land.
It
would
be
only
ordinarily
preposterous
to
attribute
this
substance
to
Krakatoa--
But,
with
the
fall,
loud
noises
were
heard--
But
I'll
omit
many
notes
upon
ashes:
if
ashes
should
sift
down
upon
deep-sea
fishes,
that
is
not
to
say
that
they
came
from
steamships.
Data
of
falls
of
cinders
have
been
especially
damned
by
Mr.
Symons,
the
meteorologist,
some
of
whose
investigations
we'll
investigate
later--nevertheless--
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