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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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And
this
inclusion
of
Lockyer's--so
far
as
findable
in
all
books
that
I
have
read--is,
in
books,
about
as
close
as
we
can
get
to
our
desideratum--that
coal
has
fallen
from
the
sky.
Dr.
Farrington,
except
with
a
brief
mention,
ignores
the
whole
subject
of
the
fall
of
carbonaceous
matter
from
the
sky.
Proctor,
in
all
of
his
books
that
I
have
read--is,
in
books,
about
as
close
as
we
can
get
to
the
admission
that
carbonaceous
matter
has
been
found
in
meteorites
"in
very
minute
quantities"--or
my
own
suspicion
is
that
it
is
possible
to
damn
something
else
only
by
losing
one's
own
soul--quasi-soul,
of
course.
Sci.
Amer.,
35-120:
That
the
substance
that
fell
at
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
"resembled
a
piece
of
anthracite
coal
more
than
anything
else."
It's
a
mistake,
I
think:
the
resemblance
is
to
bituminous
coal--but
it
is
from
the
periodicals
that
we
must
get
our
data.
To
the
writers
of
books
upon
meteorites,
it
would
be
as
wicked--by
which
we
mean
departure
from
the
characters
of
an
established
species--quasi-established,
of
course--to
say
that
coal
has
fallen
from
the
sky,
as
would
be,
to
something
in
a
barnyard,
a
temptation
that
it
climb
a
tree
and
catch
a
bird.
Domestic
things
in
a
barnyard:
and
how
wild
things
from
forests
outside
seem
to
them.
Or
the
homeopathist--but
we
shall
shovel
data
of
coal.
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