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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Little
toads
found
in
a
desert,
after
a
rainfall
(Notes
and
Queries,
8-8-493).
To
start
with
I
do
not
deny--positively--the
conventional
explanation
of
"up
and
down."
I
think
that
there
may
have
been
such
occurrences.
I
omit
many
notes
that
I
have
upon
indistinguishables.
In
the
London
Times,
July
4,
1883,
there
is
an
account
of
a
shower
of
twigs
and
leaves
and
tiny
toads
in
a
storm
upon
the
slopes
of
the
Apennines.
These
may
have
been
the
ejectamenta
of
a
whirlwind.
I
add,
however,
that
I
have
notes
upon
two
other
falls
of
tiny
toads,
in
1883,
one
in
France
and
one
in
Tahiti;
also
of
fish
in
Scotland.
But
in
the
phenomenon
of
the
Apennines,
the
mixture
seems
to
me
to
be
typical
of
the
products
of
a
whirlwind.
The
other
instances
seem
to
me
to
be
typical
of--something
like
migration?
Their
great
numbers
and
their
homogeneity.
Over
and
over
in
these
annals
of
the
damned
occurs
the
datum
of
segregation.
But
a
whirlwind
is
thought
of
as
a
condition
of
chaos--quasi-chaos:
not
final
negativeness,
of
course--
Monthly
Weather
Review,
July,
1881:
"A
small
pond
in
the
track
of
the
cloud
was
sucked
dry,
the
water
being
carried
over
the
adjoining
fields
together
with
a
large
quantity
of
soft
mud,
which
was
scattered
over
the
ground
for
half
a
mile
around."
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