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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Carbonaceous
substance
that
fell
at
Rajpunta,
India,
Jan.
22,
1911:
very
friable:
50
per
cent
of
its
soluble
in
water
(Records
Geol.
Survey
of
India,
44-pt.
1-41).
A
combustible
carbonaceous
substance
that
fell
with
sand
at
Naples,
March
14,
1818
(Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
1-1-309).
Sci.
Amer.
Sup.,
29-11798:
That,
June
9,
1889,
a
very
friable
substance,
of
a
deep,
greenish
black,
fell
at
Mighei,
Russia.
It
contained
5
per
cent
organic
matter,
which,
when
powdered
and
digested
in
alcohol,
yielded,
after
evaporation,
a
bright
yellow
resin.
In
this
mass
was
2
per
cent
of
an
unknown
mineral.
Cinders
and
ashes
and
slag
and
coke
and
charcoal
and
coal.
And
the
things
that
sometimes
deep-sea
fishes
are
bumped
by.
Reluctances
and
the
disguises
or
covered
retreats
of
such
words
as
"like"
and
"resemble"--or
that
conditions
of
Intermediateness
forbid
abrupt
transitions--but
that
the
spirit
animating
all
Intermediateness
is
to
achieve
abrupt
transitions--because,
if
anything
could
finally
break
away
from
its
origin
and
environment,
that
would
be
a
real
thing--something
not
merging
away
indistinguishably
with
the
surrounding.
So
all
attempt
to
be
original;
all
attempt
to
invent
something
that
is
more
than
mere
extension
or
modification
of
the
preceding,
is
positivism--or
that
if
one
could
conceive
of
a
device
to
catch
flies,
positively
different
from,
or
unrelated
to,
all
other
devices--up
he'd
shoot
to
heaven,
or
the
Positive
Absolute--leaving
behind
such
an
incandescent
train
that
in
one
age
it
would
be
said
that
he
had
gone
aloft
in
a
fiery
chariot,
and
in
another
age
that
he
had
been
struck
by
lightning--
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