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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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It
is
so
easy
to
say
that
small
frogs
that
have
fallen
from
the
sky
had
been
scooped
up
by
a
whirlwind;
but
here
are
the
circumstances
of
a
scoop;
in
the
exclusionist-imagination
there
is
no
regard
for
mud,
debris
from
the
bottom
of
a
pond,
floating
vegetation,
loose
things
from
the
shores--but
a
precise
picking
out
of
frogs
only.
Of
all
instances
I
have
that
attribute
the
fall
of
small
frogs
or
toads
to
whirlwinds,
only
one
definitely
identifies
or
places
the
whirlwind.
Also,
as
has
been
said
before,
a
pond
going
up
would
be
quite
as
interesting
as
frogs
coming
down.
Whirlwinds
we
read
of
over
and
over--but
where
and
what
whirlwind?
It
seems
to
me
that
anybody
who
had
lost
a
pond
would
be
heard
from.
In
Symons'
Meteorological
Magazine,
32-106,
a
fall
of
small
frogs,
near
Birmingham,
England,
June
30,
1892,
is
attributed
to
a
specific
whirlwind--but
not
a
word
as
to
any
special
pond
that
had
contributed.
And
something
that
strikes
my
attention
here
is
that
these
frogs
are
described
as
almost
white.
I'm
afraid
there
is
no
escape
for
us:
we
shall
have
to
give
to
civilization
upon
this
earth--some
new
worlds.
Places
with
white
frogs
in
them.
Upon
several
occasions
we
have
had
data
of
unknown
things
that
have
fallen
from--somewhere.
But
something
not
to
be
overlooked
is
that
if
living
things
have
landed
alive
upon
this
earth--in
spite
of
all
we
think
we
know
of
the
accelerative
velocity
of
falling
bodies--and
have
propagated--why
the
exotic
becomes
the
indigenous,
or
from
the
strangest
of
places
we'd
expect
the
familiar.
Or
if
hosts
of
living
frogs
have
come
here--from
somewhere
else--every
living
thing
upon
this
earth
may,
ancestrally,
have
come
from--somewhere
else.
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