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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
95
Because--with
many
of
our
data
of
coal
that
has
fallen
from
the
sky
as
accessible
then
as
they
are
now,
and
with
the
scientific
pronouncement
that
coal
is
fossil,
how,
in
a
real
existence,
by
which
we
mean
a
consistent
existence,
or
a
state
in
which
there
is
real
intelligence,
or
a
form
of
thinking
that
does
not
indistinguishably
merge
away
with
imbecility,
could
there
have
been
such
a
row
as
that
which
was
raised
about
forty
years
ago
over
Dr.
Hahn's
announcement
that
he
had
found
fossils
in
meteorites?
Accessible
to
anybody
at
that
time:
Philosophical
Magazine,
4-17-425:
That
the
substance
that
fell
at
Kaba,
Hungary,
April
15,
1857,
contained
organic
matter
"analagous
to
fossil
waxes."
Or
limestone:
Of
the
block
of
limestone
which
was
reported
to
have
fallen
at
Middleburg,
Florida,
it
is
said
(Science,
11-118)
that,
though
something
had
been
seen
to
fall
in
"an
old
cultivated
field,"
the
witnesses
who
ran
to
it
picked
up
something
that
"had
been
upon
the
ground
in
the
first
place."
The
writer
who
tells
us
this,
with
the
usual
exclusion-imagination
known
as
stupidity,
but
unjustly,
because
there
is
no
real
stupidity,
thinks
he
can
think
of
a
good-sized
stone
that
had
for
many
years
been
in
a
cultivated
field,
but
that
had
never
been
seen
before--had
never
interfered
with
plowing,
for
instance.
He
is
earnest
and
unjarred
when
he
writes
that
this
stone
weighs
200
pounds.
My
own
notion,
founded
upon
my
own
experience
in
seeing,
is
that
a
block
of
stone
weighing
500
pounds
might
be
in
one's
parlor
twenty
years,
virtually
unseen--but
not
in
an
old
cultivated
field,
where
it
interfered
with
plowing--not
anywhere--if
it
interfered.
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